Grazed
[ɡreizd]
Definition
(adj.) scraped or touched lightly in passing; 'his grazed and bleeding arm proved he had been in the line of fire' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Graze
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Examples
- Nothing that he wore then fitted him or seemed to belong to him; and everything that he wore then grazed him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It but grazed her side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They probably grazed their flocks over great areas much as the sheep ranchers of California do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Most of the land his tribe occupied was common land on which the cattle grazed together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Branding in this way was used mostly by cattle raisers when large herds were grazed on the western plains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A stone has grazed her temple. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was still a rough country of marsh and forest, in which the farmers grazed their cattle and made their clearings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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