different between regrate vs regraze

English

Etymology

French regratter (“to scrape again”).

Verb

regrate (third-person singular simple present regrates, present participle regrating, simple past and past participle regrated)

1. to grate again

2. To purchase goods from a market in order to resell them at the same (or nearby) market at an inflated price.
3. (masonry) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
4. To offend; to shock.
   • 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology

     whose clothing may regrate the eye

Derived terms

• regrater

Anagrams

• Traeger, Tregear, greater

English

Etymology

re- +? graze

Verb

regraze (third-person singular simple present regrazes, present participle regrazing, simple past and past participle regrazed)

1. (transitive) To graze (feed on) again.
   • 2000, Ernest Callenbach, Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (page 28)

     Both herds and individuals distribute themselves over all of an area, and bison come back to regraze areas at varying time intervals.