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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

escoriazione

Pronunciation / Transliteration: escoriazione

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Graze/ɡreɪz/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Si è fatto una piccola escoriazione cadendo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To scrape or rub skin against a rough surface, causing a minor superficial injury.

    "She fell off her bicycle and managed to graze her knee."
As noun
  1. 1

    A minor injury where the surface of the skin has been scraped.

    "The doctor cleaned the small graze on his arm and applied a bandage."
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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'grasen', originating from Old English 'græs' (grass). Historically evolved from describing cattle feeding on growing grass to also encompassing light, glancing contact as in a grazing bullet.

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