English Dictionary

graze

/ɡɹeɪz/

verb

(transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. / (transitive, intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

The cows graze peacefully in the meadow.

意味（1）

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

He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or tvvo to graze his Covvs, vvith a Garden and Orchard.

意味（2）

(transitive, intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

Cattle graze in the meadows.

意味（3）

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

Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep

意味（4）

(intransitive) To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.

Coordinate term: snack

意味（5）

To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.

Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […]

意味（6）

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

the bullet grazed the wall

意味（7）

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

to graze one's knee

意味（8）

(intransitive) To yield grass for grazing.

The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.