graze
/ɡreɪz/
noun
- A light scratch or scrape on the skin or a surface.
- A small graze on the paint can be fixed with a touch-up pen.
- The table has a graze from where the chair hit it.
- He got a graze on his knee when he fell off his bike.
verb
- To feed on growing grass or other plants, as cattle, sheep, or horses do.
- The cows graze in the field every morning.
- Deer often graze on the grass near the forest edge.
- We watched the sheep graze peacefully on the hillside.
- To eat small amounts of food throughout the day instead of at regular meals.
- She tends to graze on snacks rather than eating full meals.
- If you graze all day, you might not feel hungry at dinner.
- At the party, guests grazed on appetizers all evening.
- To touch or scrape lightly in passing, often causing minor damage.
- A bullet grazed his arm, leaving a shallow cut.
- The cat's tail grazed my leg as it walked by.
- The car's bumper grazed the wall as it pulled into the garage.