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graze

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1. graze - Noun

2. graze - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Indians were totally deprived of their freedom and were put into the harshest, fiercest, most horrible servitude and captivity which no one who has not seen it can understand. Even beasts enjoy more freedom when they are allowed to graze in the field. Bartolomé de las Casas

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

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death! John Betjeman

The horse must graze where it is tethered. Belgian Proverb

A goose cannot graze after him. Portuguese Proverb

Dogs bark and oxen graze. Sicilian Proverb

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