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1. Eating small snacks throughout the day rather than having meals
   - graze
    
2. The act of brushing against while passing
   - shaving, skimming
    
3. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
   - eatage [dialect], forage, pasture, pasturage, grass
    
4. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
   - pasture, pastureland, pasture land, grazing land, lea, ley

1. Feed as in a meadow or pasture
   "the herd was grazing";
   - crop, browse, range, pasture
    
2. Break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
   "She was grazed by the stray bullet"
    
3. Let feed in a field, pasture or meadow
   - crop, pasture
    
4. Scrape gently
   "graze the skin";
   - crease, rake
    
5. Eat lightly, try different dishes
   "There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by grazing";
   - browse

Derived forms: grazings

Type of: brush, eat, eating, feed, feeding, fodder, give, grassland, injure, nosh, snack, touch, touching, wound

Part of: country, rural area

Encyclopedia: Grazing