scrape
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Is scrape a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.Examples: "She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails."; "That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance."Synonyms: scuff, grate, scratch, compare dragambitransitive
2. (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.Examples: "Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."transitive
3. (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.Examples: "She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."; "We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads."Synonyms: abrade, chafe, grazetransitive
4. (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.Examples: "I scraped a pass in the exam."transitive
5. (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.Examples: "Just use whatever you can scrape together."transitive
6. (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.Examples: "They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website."; "The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily “scraped” as many Geocities^([sic]) pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks."transitive
noun (English)
1. (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.Examples: "He got in a scrape with the school bully."Synonyms: altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scufflecountableslanguncountable
2. (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.Examples: "1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127, It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself."; "In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out."; "The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost."Britishcountableslanguncountable
3. (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.Examples: "In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool."countableuncountable
4. (UK, slang) A shave.Examples: "A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape."UKcountableslanguncountable
5. (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.UKobsoleteslanguncountable
6. (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.Examples: "“Got a nice bit of haddock for tonight. Thought I might do it with a poached egg, bit of pepper, bread and scrape”"UKobsoleteslanguncountable
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