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Definition of Graze
Graze

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

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

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.

To yield grass for grazing.

To touch something lightly in passing.

The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.

A light touch; a slight scratch.

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Graze Quotations

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.
Nigella Lawson

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
Alexandra Paul

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
Charles Lyell

Graze Translations

graze in Dutch is grazen, weiden
graze in Italian is graffio
graze in Portuguese is paste
graze in Spanish is rascadura, rozamiento
graze in Swedish is beta, snudda vid, avbeta


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