graze

graze
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ minor, slight, small
VERB + GRAZE
▪ have, suffer
▪

She suffered only minor grazes in the crash.

PREPOSITION
▪ graze on
▪

I had a graze on my leg.

PHRASES
▪ be just a graze
▪ cuts and grazes (esp. BrE)
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verb
1 of animals
ADVERB
▪ contentedly, peacefully, quietly
▪

Sheep were grazing peacefully in the fields.

VERB + GRAZE
▪ allow sth to, turn sth out to
▪

The cattle were turned out to graze.

PREPOSITION
▪ on, upon
▪

lambs grazing on the rough moorland pasture

2 break the surface of your skin
ADVERB
▪ badly
▪

She had grazed her elbow quite badly.

▪ just, only
▪

The bullet only grazed his shoulder.

PREPOSITION
▪ on
▪

He fell and grazed his knees on a rock

Graze is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bullet, ↑calf, ↑cattle, ↑cow, ↑donkey, ↑goat, ↑goose, ↑horse, ↑lip, ↑sheep
Graze is used with these nouns as the object: ↑cattle, ↑knee, ↑knuckle

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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  • Graze — Graze, v. i. 1. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows. [1913 Webster] 2. To yield grass for grazing. [1913 Webster] The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Graze — (gr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grazed} (gr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Grazing}.] [OE. grasen, AS. grasian, fr. gr[ae]s grass. See {Grass}.] 1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. [1913 Webster] A field or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Graze — Graze, n. 1. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Turning him out for a graze on the common. T. Hughes. [1913 Webster] 2. A light touch; a slight scratch. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • graze — Ⅰ. graze [1] ► VERB 1) (of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat grass in a field. 2) informal eat frequent snacks at irregular intervals. DERIVATIVES grazer noun. ORIGIN Old English, related to GRASS(Cf. ↑ …   English terms dictionary

  • graze — vb pasture, *feed, nourish graze vb *brush, glance, shave, skim Analogous words: touch, contact (see corresponding nouns at CONTACT): injure, hurt, harm: *deface, disfigure: wound, bruise, contuse (see corresponding nouns at WOUND) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • graze — graze·able; graze; …   English syllables

  • graze — [v1] touch abrade, brush, carom, chafe, glance off, kiss*, ricochet, rub, scrape, scratch, shave*, skim, skip; concept 612 Ant. manhandle graze [v2] feed on bite, browse, champ, crop, crunch, eat, forage, gnaw, masticate, munch, nibble, pasture,… …   New thesaurus

  • graze — index contact (touch) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • grąžė — sf. žr. grąža 3: Ar sodinsime bulves grąžėse? Nj …   Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language

  • graze — graze1 [grāz] vt. grazed, grazing [ME grasen < OE grasian < base of græs, gærs, GRASS] 1. to feed on (growing grass, herbage, a pasture, etc.) 2. to put livestock to feed on (growing grass, herbage, etc.) 3. to tend (feeding livestock) …   English World dictionary

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