graze
graze /gr'eɪz/ (grazes grazing grazed)
1 [VERB] V, be V-ed, V n, V -ing
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.
2 [VERB] V n
If you graze a part of your body, you injure your skin by scraping against something.
I had grazed my knees a little.
● grazed [ADJ]
...grazed arms and legs.
3 [N-COUNT]
A graze is a small wound caused by scraping against something.
4 [VERB] V n
If something grazes another thing, it touches that thing lightly as it passes by.
A bullet had grazed his arm...
1 [VERB] V, be V-ed, V n, V -ing
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.
2 [VERB] V n
If you graze a part of your body, you injure your skin by scraping against something.
I had grazed my knees a little.
● grazed [ADJ]
...grazed arms and legs.
3 [N-COUNT]
A graze is a small wound caused by scraping against something.
4 [VERB] V n
If something grazes another thing, it touches that thing lightly as it passes by.
A bullet had grazed his arm...