to graze
35
2.5
- verb
- /ɡreɪz/
:
pastar
- People in the village of the garden owner blamed Tafa for grazing his herd too near the gardens.
- cattle graze
- animals graze
- graze on pasture
If you have deer grazing through and they graze off the buds, you'll still most likely get blooms.
- If you have deer grazing through and they graze off the buds, you'll still most likely get blooms.
- And the the idea with marginal land is that, you know, this land, you can't do anything with it except for graze cattle on it.
- There's nothing else you can do with that land and graze cattle or graze remnants.
Examples
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In moments, they rode onto a wide plain where horses grazed, tended by boys.
Fiction book (1994) -
And everyone can use that land to graze cattle or whatever.
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We'll let them graze here for a while in the morning.
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Do they graze, or do you have 'em on feed?
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Freedom to grow your own crops and graze livestock.
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The horses had moved off, too; she saw them grazing near the edge of the valley.
Fiction book (1990) -
So you put your cow out on the pasture to graze, and everything's going fine.
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According to Harvard's charter, any resident of Cambridge can bring his or her sheep into Harvard Yard so they can graze on the grass here.
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Outside his study, cows were grazing in the pasture; he relished the view.
Academic text (1991) -
The farmer lets the cattle graze in the lush green pasture during the day.
Synonyms
426
1.0
To eat food, especially for animals
69
2.9
To eat something or get strength and ideas from it
4
4.1
To put animals in a field so they can eat the grass
To allow animals to eat short green plants on a field
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Etymology
Graze meaning 'to let animals eat grass' comes from the root grass, so to graze is literally 'to eat grass', like animals nibbling in a field.