GRAZE


Meaning of GRAZE in English

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

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