graze

• vt.かすめる；こする
• vi. かすめる；こする
• n. かすめる；こする

grassから。sとzは発音上の変化。

graze

graze: [OE] There is no difficulty about the etymology of graze ‘feed on grass’: it was formed in Old English times as a derivative of the noun gr?s (modern English grass). But what about graze in the sense ‘scrape lightly’, first recorded in the 17th century? In the absence of any convincing alternative candidates, it is usually taken to be simply a special use of graze ‘feed on grass’, in the sense ‘remove grass close to the ground’, as some animals do in grazing – like a ‘close shave’, in fact.
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graze (v.1)

"to feed on grass," Old English grasian, from gr?s "grass" (see grass). Compare Middle Dutch, Middle High German grasen, Dutch grazen, German grasen. Transitive sense from 1560s. Figurative use by 1570s. Related: Grazed; grazing.

graze (v.2)

"to touch lightly in passing," c. 1600, perhaps a transferred sense from graze (v.1) via a notion of cropping grass right down to the ground (compare German grasen "to feed on grass," used in military sense in reference to cannonballs that rebound off the ground). Related: Grazed; grazing. As a noun from 1690s, "an act of grazing."

1. Five cows graze serenely around a massive oak.

5頭の乳牛が大きなオークのそばでのんびりと草をかじっている。

2.Nothing serious.Just a graze .

大丈夫、皮が少し破れた.

3.There is good grassland here for your cattle and horses to graze on.

ここには牛や馬を放牧するための良い芝生があります。

4.A bullet from one of the pistols had graze his hip.

拳銃から発射された弾丸が尻を擦りむいた。

5.The sheep usually graze in the grass land.

羊は通常芝生で草を食べている。