Meanings (ES + gloss)
apacentar • apastar • pacer • pastar • pastear • pastorear
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall.
apacentarse • campear • pacer • pastar • pastear
To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
Cattle graze in the meadows.
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.
picar • picotear
To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
Furthermore, people who take the time to sit down to proper meals find their food more satisfying than people who graze throughout the day. If you skip meals, you will inevitably e…
Many people, however, snack and graze from roughly the time they wake up until shortly before they go to bed.
excoriar
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
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…
the bullet grazed the wall
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