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verb (1)

past tense of graze
as in fed
to feed on grass or herbs cows grazing in the meadow

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verb (2)

past tense of graze
1
as in scraped
to damage by rubbing against a sharp or rough surface I grazed my elbow diving for the ball

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as in brushed
to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing the volleyball just grazed my face, so I'm okay

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Recent Examples of grazed
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Wellness guide Patrick Mauroner leads early-bird or afternoon hikes and e-bike rides through the Alpe di Siusi meadows, past fields tinkling with cowbells and grazed by pretty palomino horses. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026 Said bow grazed the ground as Kardashian walked, creating a small train. — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026 Williams died, and the woman in his car was grazed by a bullet. — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 These days, Bragg lives with Margaret nearby, in a red-cedar cabin on forty acres of pastureland grazed upon by two miniature donkeys. — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026 One of her friends who was sitting in the front passenger seat was grazed in the leg by another bullet. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 These arid plains dotted with date palms were once full of natural lakes and lush pastures on which local inhabitants roamed and grazed their livestock. — Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2026 But a 2-1 slider grazed Bryan De La Cruz’s jersey, and a Bryson Stott single to right put runners at the corners and ended Sale’s day. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 29 Sep. 2026 The former owner of UnKCorked Wine & Spirits in Overland Park grew up in a small farm town, where meals came straight from the ground (or grazed upon it). — Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grazed
  1. fed
  2. scraped
  3. brushed
  4. rustled
  5. scratched
  6. kissed
  7. ate
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  • Sigrid Rausing, Granta’s publisher, said in a statement that the magazine fed Nazir’s story into Claude as a way of gauging whether it was written with AI.
    — T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
  • His unmasking fed an emerging panic over Wikipedia’s accuracy.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of fed
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  • Fawcett scraped together donations and runs the pantry without pay.
    — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The system was developed using more than four decades of Sun West mortgage decisions rather than relying primarily on information scraped from the public internet.
    — Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of scraped
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  • Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman brushed off talk of a fading dynasty, saying the team is focused on building a roster that can contend in 2027.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Elsewhere on the dial are the Dauphine hands, with one that’s satin-brushed, the other polished.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of brushed
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  • Some of them, like the one I got stranded on, were full of green rolling hills, tall grasses that rustled in the wind, and wild goats and deer roaming free.
    — Annie Daly, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2026
  • As the ocean breeze kicked up, the palms rustled around us.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
Definition of rustled
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  • But the divisive veteran Israeli leader has scratched, scraped and literally battled his way back during a stormy three-year period of nonstop domestic crises and wars across the region.
    — Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Vaginal tissue very easily can get scratched and can bleed, depending on how smooth the wicker is.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of scratched
Verb
  • Osment and Jordan’s characters first kissed in season 5, when the actress was 29 and the actor was 18.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Oct. 2026
  • According to Miltenberg, Doe kissed his client first and did not see her drinking alcohol or doing drugs.
    — Michael Ruiz , Bryan Llenas, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of kissed
Verb
  • On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of ate

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“Grazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grazed. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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