graze

Word family

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] if an animal grazes, or if you graze it, it eats grass that is growing 〔动物〕吃草；使啃食牧草

graze on

Groups of cattle were grazing on the rich grass.

牛群在肥美的青草地上吃草。

fields where they used to graze their sheep

他们过去放羊的田野

2 [transitiveT]MICUT to accidentally break the surface of your skin by rubbing it against something 擦伤

I fell on the gravel, severely grazing my knee.

我摔倒在砾石路上，膝盖擦伤得很严重。

3 [transitiveT]TOUCH to touch something lightly while passing it, sometimes damaging it 擦过，掠过

A bullet grazed his arm.

一颗子弹擦过他的手臂。

4. [intransitiveI] informalEAT to eat small amounts of food all through the day instead of having regular meals 整天吃零食〔而不吃正餐〕

Examples from the Corpus

graze• Here are some low-fat snacks for holiday grazing.• The sheep continued to graze.• I just barely grazed her bumper, but she's claiming I wrecked her car.• Lightly though, only grazing him.• Billy grazed his knee on the sidewalk when he fell.• From up there, the grazing Holsteins are only black and white specks which seem incapable of movement.• Fernando looked down on her adoringly before allowing his lips to graze languidly over her mouth and cheeks and throat.• Longhorn cattle grazed on mesquite, and dropped the seeds along the way on drives to the north.• It is a huge four-poster that grazes the 9-foot ceilings.• The bullet grazed the corner of the building, just missing my arm.• Capella is low in the north, with Leo grazing the horizon.• The incoming immune adults then graze the lower more fibrous echelons of the herbage which contain the majority of the L3.• Ranchers will have to pay more to graze their cattle on federal land.• And grazing too many animals on too little land leaves soil unprotected against wind or water erosion.