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/grˈeɪzɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Graze v. t. (past & past part. grazed; pres. part. grazing)

1.

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. "A field or two to graze his cows."

2.

To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. "The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead."

3.

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. "When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep."

4.

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

Graze v. i.

1.

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

2.

To yield grass for grazing. "The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose."

3.

To touch something lightly in passing.

noun

Grazing n.

1.

The act of one who, or that which, grazes.

2.

A pasture; growing grass.

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Etymology of 'Grazing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grazing" Quotes from Famous Books

... talk of anything without the conversation turning on Alexey Alexandrovitch; he could not go anywhere without risk of meeting him. So at least it seemed to Vronsky, just as it seems to a man with a sore finger that he is continually, as though on purpose, grazing his sore finger ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... attending on her. As was then the custom, she wore a little red mantle as a walking dress. One day we were out in the fields, when she ran off in chase of a butterfly. At the further end of the field a bull was grazing, having been turned out to indulge his sulky humour by himself. The sight of the red cloak fluttering over the green meadow suddenly excited his rage, and with a loud roar he came rushing up towards it. I saw the little girl's danger, and quick as lightning ...

— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston

... I could not have conceived that any building or ruin could have appeared to me so sublime. The amazing size! the distinctness of the parts! the simplicity of the design, the thickness of the walls, the air of grandeur even in decay! In the courtyard of the castle an old horse and three cows were grazing, and beneath the cornices on the walls two goats, half black half white, were browsing. I believe that old castles interest one by calling up ideas of past times, which are in such strong contrast with the present. In the courtyard ...

— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth

... rapid population growth pressuring the environment; overharvesting of timber, expansion of cattle grazing, and slash-and-burn agriculture have resulted in deforestation and soil exhaustion; civil war ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... fresh pasturage made him a pioneer also, drove him ever nearer to the mountains, and furnished the economic motive for his westward advance. The small farmer needed the virgin soil of the new region, the alluvial river-bottoms, and the open prairies, for the cultivation of his crops and the grazing of his cattle; yet in the intervals between the tasks of farm life he scoured the wilderness in search of game "and spied out new lands for ...

— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

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