Eat vs Graze - What's the difference?
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To ingest; to be ingested.
#(lb) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
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#*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat' parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they ' eat the luncheon crumbs.
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#(senseid) To consume a meal.
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# To be eaten.
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To use up.
#(lb) To destroy, consume, or use up.
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#*(William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
#*:His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
# To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
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#*(Bruce Willis) in the movie (The Last Boy Scout)
#*:No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
# To consume money or (other instruents of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
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#*From the movie
#*:Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
To cause (someone) to worry.
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To take the loss in a transaction.
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*From the movie (Midnight Run)
*:I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
(lb) To corrode or erode.
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To perform oral sex on someone.
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The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1999:' Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever '''grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
* Alexander Pope
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
* 1851 ,
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between eat and graze
is that eat is to ingest; to be ingested while graze is to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc) with grass; to furnish pasture for.As a noun graze is
the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.eat
English
Verb
Synonyms
* (consume) consume, swallow; see also * (cause to worry) bother, disturb, worry * (eat a meal) dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunchDerived terms
* don't shit where you eat * eater * eat crow * eatery, eaterie * eat humble pie * eat in * eating * eat into * eat like a bird * eat like a horse * eat like a pig * eat my shorts * eat one's hat * eat one's Wheaties * eat one's words * eat out * eat pussy * eats * eat shit and die * eat someone alive * eat someone's lunch * eat up * eatworthy * pie-eater * you are what you eat * what's eating you?See also
* drink * food * edibleStatistics
*graze
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(graz)- a field or two to graze his cows
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
- the bullet grazed the wall
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
- to graze one's knee
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
