Graze

Quick meaning: Graze is a noun meaning The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.

Meaning

The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.

More Meanings

1. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
2. The act of animals feeding from pasture.
3. (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
4. (ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
5. (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
6. To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
7. (intransitive) To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.

Example Sentences

Cattle graze in the meadows.

Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep

He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard.

The lambs vvith vvolves ſhall graze the verdant mead, / And boys in flovv'ry bands the tyger lead; […]

Word Forms

• grazes
• grazing
• grazed

Synonyms for graze

Depending on context, synonyms include glance, range, crop, crease, grazing, pasture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crease, rake, pasture, crop, range, browse.

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