graze

graze

graze (third-person singular simple present grazes, present participle grazing, simple past and past participle grazed)

1. (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
   • 1999: Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
2. (intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.

   cattle graze on the meadows

3. (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
4. (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

   the bullet grazed the wall

5. (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

   to graze ones knee

graze (plural grazes)

1. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
2. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.

	pascere
	to eat grass from a pasture

graffio

	escoriazione
	light scratch

	sbucciatura
	act of grazing or scratching lightly

abrasione

brucare

colpo di striscio

escoriare

far pascolare

graffiare

graffiatura

mangiare

pascolare

radere

rasentare

sbucciare

scalfire

scorticare

sfiorare

striscio

Altri significati:

graze (in passing)

(transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

A light abrasion; a slight scratch.

(transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

to cause a slight wound to

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

(transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

to feed or supply with grass

to tend cattle while grazing

skin (one’s knee)

to rub or touch lightly the surface of in passing

(intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.

(transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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