Definitions for graze

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graze graze

Spelling: [greyz]

IPA: /greɪz/

Graze is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in graze (aegrz).

Definitions for graze

noun

1. a touching or rubbing lightly in passing.
2. a slight scratch, scrape, or wound made in passing; abrasion.

verb (used with object)

1. to feed on (growing grass).
2. to put cattle, sheep, etc., to feed on (grass, pastureland, etc.).
3. to tend (cattle, sheep, etc.) while they are at pasture.
4. to touch or rub lightly in passing.
5. to scrape the skin from; abrade:

verb (used without object)

1. to feed on growing grass and pasturage, as do cattle, sheep, etc.
2. Informal. to eat small portions of food, as appetizers or the like, in place of a full-sized meal or to snack during the course of the day in place of regular meals.
3. to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing:

Origin of graze

before 1000; Middle English grasen, Old English grasian, derivative of græs grass

Examples for graze

They could move awkwardly about to graze but they could not charge.

They did not like to graze in the flowers, and were glad when Peter awoke with their loud bleating.

Come here, graze about my head, let me hear you crunch the grass.

Beseech me from the grass; Wings frolic in the air, And graze me as they pass.

Then the girl took the flax and drove the heifer out to graze.

Their regional rivals are the nomadic Missiriya tribe, who come down from the north into Abyei so their cattle can graze.

If he walked slowly, so did the cow, and seized the opportunity to graze.

There were two or three of the lot that I did not think profitable to graze.

We were traveling with oxen, and it was our custom to let them graze for two hours at noon.

So the heifer began to graze, but the girl sat down and began to weep.