scrape
IPA: skrˈeɪp
noun
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- (UK, slang) A shave.
- (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
- (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
- (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (transitive, intransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
- 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.
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Examples of "scrape" in Sentences
- "I don't know what you call a scrape," said Harry.
- Just a liddle bit *scoop scoop scrape scrape* *plump*
- * Scrape, scrape, scrape* "Here's your friggin 'Lisa Butter & Jelly sammich!"
- The minute I heard the word scrape, it was as if a lightbulb went off in my brain.
- A scrape is a great place to place a trailcam too, as many different bucks often visit.
- An now ai’ll get yur braynes *scoop scoop scrape scrape* gud. this wuz just a liddel sprort!
- At the same moment there began a methodical _scrape, scrape, scrape_ immediately outside the house.
- He loved feeling the coin scrape away the foil lining, beneath which was the prospect of instant riches.
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