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English Dictionary: grazed by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grazed
adj
  1. scraped or touched lightly in passing; "his grazed and bleeding arm proved he had been in the line of fire"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Graze \Graze\ (gr[amac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grazed}
      (gr[amac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Grazing}.] [OE. grasen, AS.
      grasian, fr. gr[91]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.
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