Word Finder - grazed

definition

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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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).

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To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)

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Cattle graze in the meadows.

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To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

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To eat periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes.

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To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.

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To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

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the bullet grazed the wall

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To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

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to graze one's knee

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To yield grass for grazing.

It grazed her arm.

Felt like a missile almost grazed us.

His hand grazed her as he reached around her for a set of keys she hadn't noticed on the counter.

His teeth grazed the sensitive skin without biting.

She ducked and the ball of ice grazed off her hood.

A breed peculiar to the district, known as Kents, is grazed on Romney Marsh, but Southdowns are the principal breed raised on the uplands.

Elisabeth gently grazed his earlobe just as she had that first night.

His horse had been wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet.

When the Elk grazed on this hill, they could be seen from the bay window.

Cattle are grazed in considerable numbers on the marsh lands, and dairy farms are numerous in the neighbourhood of London.

Her fingers grazed the cold metal, and she stretched towards it.

She gasped and pulled away, but not before his thumb grazed her calloused palm.

The clover-grass ley is then grazed for a year or two with sheep, after which wheat and potatoes are the chief crops grown on the land.

Across the field, two elk grazed on the hill below the tree line.

There is an estimated county total of seasonally inundated grassland of 481 ha, the proportion which is grazed is unknown.

A small area of grazed floodplain grassland with shallow ponds occurs by the River Clyde, southeast of Barons Haugh.

Whatever was in the hallway distracted Dusty again, and red splashed across his forearm as Talon's blow grazed him.

A touch of coolness grazed his heated frame, which always grew hotter than Hell when he changed forms.

He hit a comfortable pace and stayed there as he peddled past the cemetery and the open meadows where a herd of elk grazed near the river to his left, standing at attention near the edge of the tall cottonwoods that lined the bank.

Across the creek, on the hillside, two elk grazed contentedly.

Lower infralittoral Sparse kelp park, dominated by foliose algae except where grazed.

Although it is usually avoided by stock creeping buttercup is more palatable than the other buttercups and may be grazed.

The area was grazed by cattle but access to the crop was restricted by an electric fence.

Frank often grazed the cattle on the Common in the sixties.

The meadows, untouched by peat extraction, are grazed by cattle to retain their variety of wild flowers.

In other parts the rocks were totally bare from having been grazed by massive numbers of spiny sea urchins.

All the islands except Dun are grazed by feral sheep.

Fields which are grazed are usually provided with cattle troughs.

The Lune Estuary has grazed saltmarshes that are important for grazing wildfowl.

But this atom, only grazed by calumny, has already been restored to him by posterity, for he died poor, having been the first to suffer by the disaster to his illusions.

The edges of fens may merge into wet rushy grassland grazed by cattle.

The undergrowth of the forest here, being grazed by cattle, is much more open.

Only a thousand years ago Greenland was a verdant pasture, grazed by the flocks of the settling Vikings.

The spring outburst of phytoplankton is grazed down by zooplankton in the summer and occurs again as a second maximum in the autumn.

The cattle are pasture grazed in a stress free environment on small to medium sized family farms.

This may be partly because the roadways and paths were limited and didn't go to the places where most herds grazed, and partly because at first the animals were just as afraid of people in the protected area of the park as outside of it.

Alex obliged and then the four of them continued to a lot where some horses grazed.

They also demanded permission to occupy the vast plains of the interior, without having to obtain by purchase or by grant the fee-simple of the lands upon which their sheep and cattle grazed.

She'd shot Donovan on accident and only grazed his arm from a meter away.

There is an estimated county total of seasonally inundated grassland of 481 acres, the proportion which is grazed is unknown.

I do not know the distribution and extent of the grazing marsh which is pasture or meadow and how much is grazed and periodically inundated with water.

These small, patchy woods are often the only relief from closely grazed grasslands or moorland.

Increased grazing intensity is believed to have reduced the frequency of many of the characteristic herbaceous plants and removed them from heavily grazed sites.

Only then did I notice the grazed knuckles on Teal'c's right hand.

The wet fen meadow had not been grazed for 25 years.

A wheel wrench with a telescopic extending handle makes cracking the nuts much easier, with less chance of grazed knuckles!

Green-winged orchid - this common orchid is evident where rabbits have grazed the sward.

So far nearly half of the four grazed paddocks have been done.

A dry well grazed area produced three woodchat shrikes along with masked shrike, 3 species of wheatear and hundreds of flava wagtail species.

Oliiro k?i rbotiaaor C agricultural wealth of Washington, but the raising of live-stock on ranges is less common than when large herds grazed free on government lands.