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GRAZED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scraped or touched lightly in passing
Example:
his grazed and bleeding arm proved he had been in the line of fire
Classified under:
Similar:
touched (having come into contact)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb graze
Context examples:
So close were they to each other that Alleyne had no time to spring back from the next cut, which beat down his sword and grazed his forehead, sending the blood streaming into his eyes and down his cheeks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The broad strips of bracken glowed red and yellow against the black peaty soil, and a queenly doe who grazed among them turned her white front and her great questioning eyes towards the wayfarers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
