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GRAZING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of brushing against while passing
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("grazing" is a kind of...):
touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)
Derivation:
graze (scrape gently)
graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of grazing
Synonyms:
graze; grazing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("grazing" is a kind of...):
eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)
Derivation:
graze (feed as in a meadow or pasture)
graze (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb graze
Context examples:
If it had lasted any longer, I think I must have gone down on my knees on the gravel, with the probability before me of grazing them, and of being presently ejected from the premises besides.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Once in a grove we observed several of these great creatures grazing, and Lord John, with his glass, was able to report that they also were spotted with asphalt, though in a different place to the one which we had examined in the morning.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The ring-grazing orbits will continue until April 22, when the last close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan will once again reshape Cassini's flight path.
(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)
Cattle-grazing has led to the takeover of grasslands by shrubs and other woody vegetation.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
He mounted, as he spoke, a white mule which had been grazing by the wayside, all gay with fustian of gold and silver bells, and rode onward with Sir Nigel's party.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their constant food.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
After it rains, grazing animals have a field day.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
A blue heaven stretched above, a green rolling plain undulated below, intersected with hedge-rows and flecked with grazing sheep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
