Synonymer

Uttal

    • IPA: /ɡɹeɪz/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

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

Verb

  1. (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
  2. (ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
  3. (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
  4. (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
  5. (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
  6. (intransitive) To yield grass for grazing.

Exempel

  • a field or two to graze his cows
  • 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).
  • Cattle graze in the meadows.
  • The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
  • The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing.
  • when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
  • the bullet grazed the wall
  • But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
  • to graze one's knee
  • 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.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipgrazedImperfektgrazed
PresensparticipgrazingPluralgrazes
Tredje person singular indicativ presensgrazesTredje person singular indicativ presensgrazeth

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