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scrape

Pronunciation: /skɹeɪp/

The English word “scrape” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
  2. To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
  3. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
  4. To barely manage to achieve or attain.
  5. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
  6. To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
  7. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
  8. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
  9. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
  10. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.

noun

  1. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
  2. The sound or action of something being scraped.
  3. Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
  4. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
  5. An awkward set of circumstances.
  6. A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
  7. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
  8. A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
  9. A shave.
  10. Cheap butter.

Etymology

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”),…

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