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# graze

verb (graze, grazes, grazed, grazing); noun (graze, grazes)

«graze» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To graze is when animals like cows, sheep and horses eat grass in a field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#m1)
2. To graze your skin is to scrape it a little, like a knee when you fall. A graze is that small scrape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#m2)
3. To graze can also mean to touch something lightly as you pass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#m3)

### In the lessons

In maths: animals counted in a field; or a field shared among animals; animals joining to graze add, leaving take away. In science: grazing animals (herbivores) eat plants. First aid: clean a graze with water and cover it with a plaster. Phrases: graze in the field, graze your knee, a nasty graze.

### Examples

- 12 cows graze in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x1)
- 5 more sheep came to graze. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x2)
- The horses graze for 6 hours a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x3)
- How many animals graze on the hill now? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x4)
- Deer graze at the edge of the forest at dawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x5)
- She fell off her bike and grazed her knee. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x6)
- Wash the graze and put a plaster on it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x7)
- The ball grazed the top of the net. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb: grazed, grazing. A graze (scrape) is small; a cut is deeper. An action of the story; animals joining to graze add, leaving take away. No clue by itself.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «graze» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«graze» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/graze.html) on Mova free.