graze

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
  2. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
  3. The act of animals feeding from pasture.
    — If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]
动词 v.
  1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. transitive
    — He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard.
  2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) ambitransitive
    — Cattle graze in the meadows.
  3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. transitive
    — Shylock: When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
  4. To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger. intransitive
    — Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably end up snacking on more high-fat high-sugar foods.
  5. To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
    — Grazing refers to customers who consume food items before paying for them, for example, a customer bags one and a half pounds of grapes in the produce department, eats some as she continues her shopping […]
  6. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing. transitive
    — the bullet grazed the wall
  7. To cause a slight wound to; to scratch. transitive
    — to graze one's knee
  8. To yield grass for grazing. intransitive
    — The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.

词形变化

grazes plural grazes present,singular,third-person grazing participle,present grazed participle,past grazed past

词汇关系

衍生词
Earth-grazing grazable grazeable grazeland grazer grazing fire nongrazed overgraze regraze undergraze undergrazed ungrazed

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *grasōną
Proto-West Germanic *grasōn
Old English grasian
Middle English grasen
English graze
Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *grasą
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *grasōną
Proto-West Germanic *grasōn
Old English grasian
Middle English grasen
English graze
Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass.
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