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Grazed vs Grazer - What's the difference?

grazed | grazer |

As a verb grazed

is (graze).

As a noun grazer is

an animal that grazes.

grazed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (graze)

    • 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

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    grazer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal that grazes.
  • A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
  • * 2004 , Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, J. W. Harrington Jr., Geography and Technology (page 330)
    • Grazers have a lower level of involvement and view only when "something is happening."