Graze vs Craze - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between graze and craze

is that graze is the act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing while craze is craziness; insanity.

As verbs the difference between graze and craze

is that graze is to feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc) with grass; to furnish pasture for while craze is to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

graze

English

Noun

(en noun)

The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.

A light abrasion; a slight scratch.

Verb

(graz)

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

* Jonathan Swift

a field or two to graze his cows

* 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.

Cattle graze in the meadows.

* Alexander Pope

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.

* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)

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 .

To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.

* Shakespeare

when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep

To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.

the bullet grazed the wall

* 1851 ,

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 cause a slight wound to; to scratch.

to graze one's knee

To yield grass for grazing.

* Francis Bacon

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.

Derived terms

* overgraze

Anagrams

* ----

craze

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)

Craziness; insanity.

A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.

A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.

Verb

(craz)

To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

* Milton

Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.

To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

* Tillotson

any man that is crazed and out of his wits

* Shakespeare

Grief hath crazed my wits.

To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

* Keats

She would weep and he would craze .

(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.

* Milton

God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.

(intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.