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# graze

«graze» in Mova's school dictionary: **when animals like cows, sheep and horses eat grass in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) To graze is when animals like cows, sheep and horses eat grass in a field. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Dugongs are sea cows that graze on sea grass, and sailors long ago may have mistaken dugongs and manatees for mermaids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/6/)
- [When you graze your knee, blood dries into a scab that seals the gap like a plaster while new skin grows underneath.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/2/)
- [A cut or graze that is not cleaned can become infected, getting red, swollen, warm and painful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/16/)
- [Your skin is a wall that keeps germs out, and a cut or graze is a hole in that wall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/0/)
- [A graze scrapes off the top layer of skin, and dirt left in it can cause an infection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/4-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «graze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.