transcription, транскрипция: [ greɪz ]
( grazes, grazing, grazed)
1.
When animals graze or are grazed , they eat the grass or other plants that are growing in a particular place. You can also say that a field is grazed by animals.
Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak...
The hills have been grazed by sheep because they were too steep to be ploughed...
Several horses grazed the meadowland.
...a large herd of grazing animals.
VERB : V , be V-ed , V n , V -ing
2.
If you graze a part of your body, you injure your skin by scraping against something.
I had grazed my knees a little.
VERB : V n
• grazed
...grazed arms and legs.
ADJ
3.
A graze is a small wound caused by scraping against something.
N-COUNT
4.
If something grazes another thing, it touches that thing lightly as it passes by.
A bullet had grazed his arm...
VERB : V n