GRAZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grazed mean? 

• GRAZED (adjective)
  The adjective GRAZED has 1 sense:

1. scraped or touched lightly in passing

  Familiarity information: GRAZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scraped or touched lightly in passing

Context example:

his grazed and bleeding arm proved he had been in the line of fire

Similar:

touched (having come into contact)

 Context examples 

Lord John had the shoulder of his coat torn away, but the creature's teeth had only grazed the flesh.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The boreholes allow ranchers to use arid areas once grazed only in wet years.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf out of their hands, the roe grazed by their side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As he toppled backwards he had loosed the spring, and the huge beam of wood, swinging round with tremendous force, cast the corpse of his comrade so close to the English ship that its mangled and distorted limbs grazed their very stern.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head-on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometres per second.

(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)

Astronomers are not sure whether they merely grazed each other or collided head-on, but either way it triggered a powerful eruption that launched other nearby protostars and hundreds of colossal streamers of gas and dust out into interstellar space at over 150 kilometers per second.

(Dramatic Stellar Fireworks of Star Birth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I told him, we had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in winter were kept in houses with hay and oats, where Yahoo servants were employed to rub their skins smooth, comb their manes, pick their feet, serve them with food, and make their beds.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then Miss Mills benignantly dismissed me, saying, Go back to Dora! and I went; and Dora leaned out of the carriage to talk to me, and we talked all the rest of the way; and I rode my gallant grey so close to the wheel that I grazed his near fore leg against it, and took the bark off, as his owner told me, to the tune of three pun' sivin'—which I paid, and thought extremely cheap for so much joy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Between 1930 and 1990, the grazed area of the Kgalagadi district in the southern Kalahari increased from 5,019 square miles to 12,355 square miles, and the number of boreholes increased from eight in 1955 to more than 380 in 1990.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

A dozen tethered horses and mules grazed around the encampment, while a number of archers lounged about: some shooting at marks, while others built up great wooden fires in the open, and hung their cooking kettles above them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)