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Spell Bee Word: Graze


What does graze mean?

Word: Graze

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: When animals graze, they eat grass in a field. To graze can also mean to scrape your skin slightly.

Synonyms: scrape

How do you spell graze?

Syllables: graze

Tricky part: Graze is spelt with a z, not an s, and ends with a silent e.

Watch out for: grase, grayz

Memory tip: Cows graze on grass, but the two words end differently: grass has ss, graze has z and a silent e.

Graze in a sentence

Example 1: Buffaloes graze along the canal bank every morning.

Example 2: Adam grazed his knee when he fell off his skateboard.

Example 3: Goats will graze on almost any leafy plant.

Fun Fact

A cow can spend around eight hours a day grazing, and several more hours chewing the cud.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The cows graise in the green field behind our school.

a) graise
b) cows
c) field
d) green

Show answer

a) graise. Graze needs no i: the e at the end already stretches the a.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

graze

a) run
b) feed
c) bathe
d) rest

Show answer

b) feed. Animals that graze are feeding on grass.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) medow
b) pastur
c) graze
d) catle

Show answer

c) graze. Graze ends in z and a silent e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a graze on the knee, what is usually needed?

a) crutches for a month
b) a plaster cast for weeks
c) an operation in hospital
d) a wash and a plaster

Show answer

d) a wash and a plaster

2. Which animal does not graze?

a) a cow
b) a goat
c) a horse
d) a lion

Show answer

d) a lion

Associated Words

Words that start with gra: graceful, grateful, grapefruit, granary, gravitation, graduate

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: scrape

More words from this list

leisure, passage, reporter, stylish, voyage, audience, construct, ease

Next steps

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