Graze

Pronunciation: /ˈɡreɪz/

Graze (verb)

  1. When animals eat grass in a field.
  2. To touch something lightly while moving past it.
  3. To scrape the skin slightly, causing a small injury.

Examples

  • The cows graze in the field every morning.
  • Sheep graze on the hillside during summer.

Common collocations: cattle graze, graze peacefully, grazed surface, barely graze, graze a knee

Graze (noun)

  1. A small injury where the skin is scraped.

Examples

  • He had a small graze on his arm.
  • The child showed her mother a graze on her knee.

Synonyms of Graze

Neutral

Informal

Antonyms of Graze

  • when referring to feeding