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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- transitive verb. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
- transitive verb. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- transitive verb. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
- intransitive verb. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
- intransitive verb. To yield grass for grazing.
- intransitive verb. To touch something lightly in passing.
- noun. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
- noun. A light touch; a slight scratch.
- noun. the act of grazing
- noun. a superficial abrasion
- verb. eat lightly, try different dishes
"There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing"
- verb. scrape gently
"graze the skin"
- verb. feed as in a meadow or pasture
"the herd was grazing"
- verb. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- verb. break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
"She was grazed by the stray bullet"
Synonyms
grazing, browse, crease, rake, crop, pasture, range
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in graze:
Common word forms
grazed, grazer, grazes, grazing, grazeable
Words from these letters
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