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Graze   /greɪz/   Listen
Graze

verb
(past & past part. grazed; pres. part. grazing)
1.
Feed as in a meadow or pasture.  Synonyms: browse, crop, pasture, range.
2.
Break the skin (of a body part) by scraping.
3.
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.  Synonyms: crop, pasture.
4.
Scrape gently.  Synonyms: crease, rake.
5.
Eat lightly, try different dishes.  Synonym: browse.
noun
1.
A superficial abrasion.
2.
The act of grazing.  Synonym: grazing.






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"Graze" Quotes from Famous Books



... now, watch him. He has bathed his forehead, and the blood has ceased trickling. His hurt is really a mere graze; I can see it from hence. He is going to look ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... college fronted the side of a lane, where cattle were sometimes turned out to graze during the night; and from the steeple hung the bell-rope, very low in the middle of the outside porch. Foote saw in this an object likely to produce some fun, and immediately set about to accomplish his purpose. ...
— Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed • Joseph Taylor

... under the knowing touch of the still more expert steersman, a rapid may be run in perfect safety through racing waves which only just fail to leap aboard, on roaring water which drowns the human voice so completely that the bowman can only make use of signals, past rocks and snags on which a single graze would mean a wreck, and, often the worst of all, from one wild 'throw' to another with quite a different set and a wrench of two fierce currents where ...
— All Afloat - A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways • William Wood

... her young, we have occasionally been obliged to kill the male with arrows steeped in a poison so powerful, that the slightest graze will cause ...
— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... the seven deformed gas tanks materialized in the haze. We got the freeway in our sights and steadied and slowed and kept slowing. The plane didn't graze the cracking plant this time, though I'd have sworn it was going to hit it head on. When I saw we weren't going to hit it, I wanted to shut my eyes, but ...
— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber


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