Dictionary Entry
graze
graze is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- 2transitive verb
To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
- 3transitive verb
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- 4transitive verb
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
- 5intransitive verb
To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
- 6intransitive verb
To yield grass for grazing.
- 7intransitive verb
To touch something lightly in passing.
- 8noun
The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
- 9noun
A light touch; a slight scratch.
- 10noun
the act of grazing
Synonyms
- 11noun
a superficial abrasion
- 12verb
eat lightly, try different dishes
"There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing"
Synonyms
- 13verb
scrape gently
"graze the skin"
- 14verb
feed as in a meadow or pasture
"the herd was grazing"
- 15verb
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- 16verb
break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
"She was grazed by the stray bullet"
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