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GRAZE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of grazing
Synonyms:
graze; grazing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("graze" is a kind of...):
eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)
Derivation:
graze (eat lightly, try different dishes)
graze (scrape gently)
graze (feed as in a meadow or pasture)
graze (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A superficial abrasion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("graze" is a kind of...):
abrasion; excoriation; scrape; scratch (an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off)
Derivation:
graze (scrape gently)
graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they graze ... he / she / it grazes
Past simple: grazed
Past participle: grazed
-ing form: grazing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eat lightly, try different dishes
Example:
There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing
Synonyms:
browse; graze
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "graze" is one way to...):
nosh; snack (eat a snack; eat lightly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue graze
Derivation:
graze (the act of grazing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Scrape gently
Example:
graze the skin
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "graze" is one way to...):
brush (touch lightly and briefly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "graze"):
shave (touch the surface of lightly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
grazing (the act of brushing against while passing)
graze (a superficial abrasion)
graze (the act of grazing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Feed as in a meadow or pasture
Example:
the herd was grazing
Synonyms:
browse; crop; graze; pasture; range
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "graze" is one way to...):
eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)
Verb group:
range (let eat)
crop; graze; pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The animals graze
Derivation:
graze; grazing (the act of grazing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
Synonyms:
crop; graze; pasture
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "graze" is one way to...):
feed; give (give food to)
Verb group:
browse; crop; graze; pasture; range (feed as in a meadow or pasture)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "graze"):
grass (feed with grass)
drift (drive slowly and far afield for grazing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They graze the animals
Derivation:
graze (the act of grazing)
grazier (a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market)
grazing (the act of grazing)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
Example:
She was grazed by the stray bullet
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "graze" is one way to...):
injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Did he graze his foot?
Derivation:
graze (the act of grazing)
graze (a superficial abrasion)
grazing (the act of brushing against while passing)
Context examples:
The ring-grazing orbits will continue until April 22, when the last close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan will once again reshape Cassini's flight path.
(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)
If it had lasted any longer, I think I must have gone down on my knees on the gravel, with the probability before me of grazing them, and of being presently ejected from the premises besides.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head-on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.
(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)
The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf out of their hands, the roe grazed by their side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head-on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometers per second.
(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But you! Look there, rat, on yonder field where the cows graze, and on that other beyond, and on the orchard hard by the church.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Cassini's imaging cameras acquired these latest views on Dec. 2 and 3, about two days before the first ring-grazing approach to the planet.
(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)
Since the border was established in 1982, wood-gathering and grazing have ceased on the Israeli side.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
Once in a grove we observed several of these great creatures grazing, and Lord John, with his glass, was able to report that they also were spotted with asphalt, though in a different place to the one which we had examined in the morning.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I told him, we had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in winter were kept in houses with hay and oats, where Yahoo servants were employed to rub their skins smooth, comb their manes, pick their feet, serve them with food, and make their beds.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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