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Thesaurus: graze

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

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  1. v. t. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
  2. v. t. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
  3. v. t. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
  4. v. t. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.
  5. v. i. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
  6. v. i. To yield grass for grazing.
  7. v. i. To touch something lightly in passing.
  8. n. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass.
  9. n. A light touch; a slight scratch.
  10. n. a superficial abrasion
  11. n. the act of grazing
  12. v. feed as in a meadow or pasture