Antonyms for graze

Grammar : Verb

Spell : greyz

Phonetic Transcription : greɪz

Definition of graze

Origin : "to feed," Old English grasian "to feed on grass," from græs "grass" (see grass). Cf. Middle Dutch, Middle High German grasen, Dutch grazen, German grasen. Figurative use by 1570s. Related: Grazed; grazing.

verb touch
verb feed on

Example sentences :

If he walked slowly, so did the cow, and seized the opportunity to graze.
Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Then the girl took the flax and drove the heifer out to graze.
Extract from : « Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales » by Anonymous

So the heifer began to graze, but the girl sat down and began to weep.
Extract from : « Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales » by Anonymous

We were traveling with oxen, and it was our custom to let them graze for two hours at noon.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

Beseech me from the grass; Wings frolic in the air, And graze me as they pass.
Extract from : « Enamels and Cameos and other Poems » by Thophile Gautier

Come here, graze about my head, let me hear you crunch the grass.
Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai

There were two or three of the lot that I did not think profitable to graze.
Extract from : « Cattle and Cattle-breeders » by William M'Combie

They could move awkwardly about to graze but they could not charge.
Extract from : « Space Prison » by Tom Godwin

They did not like to graze in the flowers, and were glad when Peter awoke with their loud bleating.
Extract from : « Heidi » by Johanna Spyri

It's too steep to plow, and only a goat could find a foothold on it to graze.
Extract from : « The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays » by Laura Lee Hope

Synonyms for graze

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