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Collocations for graze - noun

ADJECTIVE

minor, slight, small

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VERB + graze

have, suffer
She suffered only minor grazes in the crash.

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PREPOSITION

graze on
I had a graze on my leg.

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PHRASES

be just a graze
cuts and grazes (esp. BrE)

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Collocations for graze - verb

1. of animals

ADVERB

contentedly, peacefully, quietly
Sheep were grazing peacefully in the fields.

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VERB + graze

allow sth to, turn sth out to
The cattle were turned out to graze.

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PREPOSITION

on, upon
lambs grazing on the rough moorland pasture

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2. break the surface of your skin

ADVERB

badly
She had grazed her elbow quite badly.
just, only
The bullet only grazed his shoulder.

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PREPOSITION

on
He fell and grazed his knees on a rock

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Graze is used with these nouns as the subject:
bullet, calf, cattle, cow, donkey, goat, goose, horse, lip, sheep

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Graze is used with these nouns as the object:
cattle, knee, knuckle

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