to browse

Examples

• All

• The deer were quietly browsing on the tender leaves of the bushes as we watched from a distance.

• Quickly growing suckers may escape elk browsing more effectively than suckers that grow slowly.

  Academic text (2002)

• They'd drunk their fill and were browsing the new grass at the water's edge.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The moose, less than a hundred yards from the road, was standing up to its knees in water, browsing.

  Academic text (2009)

• Then she dipped her head into the leaves and began to browse, tearing at the leaves with her stubby teeth.

  Fiction book (2002)

• About half a mile away, an elk plowed through the chest-deep snow, browsing on lodgepole pine needles.

  Academic text (1991)

• We had our spotting scopes trained on a herd of several hundred barren-ground caribou browsing three miles away in the broad, treeless, U-shaped valley of the Anaktuvuk River.

  Academic text (2009)

• During the warm afternoon, the cows were browsing on the fresh green grass near the pond.

• In the forest, rabbits can often be seen browsing on low-hanging branches and shrubs.

Synonyms

F

to forage

vsto browse

22 4.9

To search widely for food in the wild

feeds on high plants in a selective leisurely way

Phrasal Verbs

B

to browse the internet

• Texting

1 2.3

To look through web pages on the internet for information or fun

How Much

to devour

13 2.9

to graze

35 2.5

to browse

2 5.0

to nibble

56 2.0

Surface Forms

Etymology