graze
[verb]
feed, browse, crop, pasture
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[verb]
Synonyms:
- touch, brush, glance off, rub, scrape, shave, skim
- scratch, abrade, chafe, scrape, skin
[noun]
Synonyms:
- scratch, abrasion, scrape

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Related Words: harm, hurt, injure, bruise, contuse, wound

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I. graze¹ /ɡreɪz/ verb
[Language: Old English; Origin: grasian, from græs; ⇒ grass]

1. [intransitive and transitive] if an animal grazes, or if you graze it, it eats grass that is growing
graze on
Groups of cattle were grazing on the rich grass.
fields where they used to graze their sheep

2. [transitive] to accidentally break the surface of your skin by rubbing it against something:
I fell on the gravel, severely grazing my knee.

3. [transitive] to touch something lightly while passing it, sometimes damaging it:
A bullet grazed his arm.

4. [intransitive] informal to eat small amounts of food all through the day instead of having regular meals

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II. graze² noun [countable]
a wound caused by rubbing that slightly breaks the surface of your skin:
Adam walked away from the crash with just a graze on his left shoulder.

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graze
noun
ADJ. minor, slight, small
VERB + GRAZE get, have, suffer She suffered only minor grazes in the crash.
PREP. ~ on I've got a graze on my leg.

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graze
verb
I. of animals
ADV. 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.
PREP. on/upon lambs grazing on the rough moorland pasture

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graze
II. break the surface of your skin
ADV. badly She had grazed her elbow quite badly.
PREP. on He fell and grazed his knees on a rock

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