1. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
   "The horses were turned out to the pasture for grazing";
   - eatage [dialect], forage, pasture, pasturage, grass
    
2. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
   "The cattle roamed freely on the vast grazing land";
   - pasture, pastureland, pasture land, grazing land, lea, ley
    
3. Eating small snacks throughout the day rather than having meals
   "Her habit of grazing on snacks all day made it difficult to stick to a diet"
    
4. The act of brushing against while passing
   "The car's grazing of the guardrail left a scratch";
   - shaving, skimming

1. Feed as in a meadow or pasture
   "the herd was grazing";
   - crop, browse, range, pasture
    
2. Let feed in a field, pasture or meadow
   "The sheep grazed on the hillside";
   - crop, pasture
    
3. Break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
   "She was grazed by the stray bullet"
    
4. Scrape gently
   "graze the skin";
   - crease, rake
    
5. Touch or scrape slightly while passing
   "The bullet grazed the lamp"
    
6. [informal] Eat small amounts of different foods, especially snacks
   "She spent the afternoon grazing on chips and cookies"

Derived forms: grazings

Type of: brush, eating, feed, feeding, fodder, give, grassland, injure, nosh, snack, touch, touching, wound

Part of: country, rural area

Encyclopedia: Grazing