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browze

browze is the alternative spelling of browse.

Meaning of browse

Verb

browse (third-person singular simple present browses, present participle browsing, simple past and past participle browsed)

  1. To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
    • I'm just browsing around.
  2. To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
  3. (transitive) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
    • HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  4. (intransitive) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
    • Sheep ranged everywhere under the low cedars. They browsed with noses in the frost, and from all around came the tinkle of tiny bells on the curly-horned rams, and an endless variety of bleats.1910, Zane Grey, The Heritage of the Desert
  5. (archaic) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
    • The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 21

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Forms of browze

third-person singular presentbrowzes
present participlebrowzing
past participlebrowzed
pastbrowzed

Questions about browze

What is browze the alternative spelling of?
Browze is the alternative spelling of browse.

Words near browze in the dictionary

  1. browsters
  2. Browston Green
  3. browsts
  4. browsweat
  5. browsy
  6. browze
  7. browzed
  8. browzes
  9. browzing
  10. broxaldine
  11. broxaterol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: browze (page history and authors); browse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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