verb · transitive · rare

graze

graze · grazes · grazed · grazing

пасти, пастися

пасти, пастись, содрать, царапать

weiden lassen, grasen lassen, weiden, hüten

To feed or supply with grassTo feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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/ɡɹeɪz/

» Cattle were grazing in the field.

Vieh weidete auf dem Feld. — samueldora

На поле пасся скот. — Wezel

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Meaning

8 senses

(transitive)To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
grasen lassen, weiden lassen, beweiden
пасти́pastí
па́стиpásty
feed as in a meadow or pasture
(ambitransitive)To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
Cattle graze in the meadows.
weiden, grasen
пасти́сьpastísʹ
па́стисяpástysja
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
(transitive)To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
hüten, grasen lassen, weiden lassen
пасти́pastí
(intransitive)To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
(transitive)To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
the bullet grazed the wall
touchieren, streifen, ankratzen
цара́патьcarápatʹ
(transitive)To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
to graze one's knee
abschürfen, schürfen, ankratzen
поцара́патьpocarápatʹ, содра́тьsodrátʹ, ссади́тьssadítʹ
(intransitive)To yield grass for grazing.

Examples

123 sentences

Cattle were grazing in the field.
ruНа поле пасся скот. — Wezel
deVieh weidete auf dem Feld. — samueldora
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We saw cows grazing in the meadow.
deWir sahen Milchkühe auf der Weide Gras fressen. — xtofu80
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Cows are grazing in the meadow.
Корови пасуться на лугу. — deniko
ruКоровы пасутся на лугу. — Smoky
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Hope is the meadow on which fools graze.
Дурень думкою багатіє. — oromashka
deHoffnung ist die Wiese, auf der die Narren grasen. — Esperantostern
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The cows grazed in the pasture.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

to feed or supply with grass:

to eat grass from a pasture:

Русский

By meaning 4

to feed or supply with grass:

to eat grass from a pasture:

to rub or touch lightly the surface of in passing:

to cause a slight wound to:

Deutsch

By meaning 5

to feed or supply with grass:

to eat grass from a pasture:

to tend cattle while grazing:

to rub or touch lightly the surface of in passing:

to cause a slight wound to:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, fro

Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass.

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