Synonyms for graze
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : greyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : greɪz |
Top 10 synonyms for graze Other synonyms for the word graze
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for graze
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