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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRA'ZED, pp. Touched lightly by a passing body; brushed.
1. Fed by growing grass; as, cattle are grazed.
2. Eaten, as growing herbage; as, the fields were grazed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: scraped or touched lightly in passing; "his grazed and bleeding arm proved he had been in the line of fire"

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Graze Graze (gr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grazed (gr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Grazing.] [OE. grasen, AS. grasian, fr. gr[ae]s grass. See Grass.] 1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. --Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. --Pope. 3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep. --Shak. 4. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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