Sekirov Dictionary

scrape

/skɹeɪp/

noun 13
verb 10
forms 5
phrases 9

noun13

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The sound or action of something being scraped.
- For a long while, the only sounds in the café were the scrapes of forks against old white plates and occasional slurps from coffee mugs. — 2000
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A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
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An awkward set of circumstances.
- I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
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(slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- He got in a scrape with the school bully.
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Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- A little solace came at tea time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half-slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: […] — 1847
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(UK, slang) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
- “Got a nice bit of haddock for tonight. Thought I might do it with a poached egg, bit of pepper, bread and scrape” — 2018
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A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […] — 1948
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A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool. — 2014
An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
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(UK, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- 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. — 1972
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(UK, slang) A shave.
- A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape. — 1945
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A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- 16. Azure, a Scrape Argent. 17. Gules, a Battune Argent. — 1730
(slang, no longer used) Cheap butter.

verb10

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To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
- That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
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To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
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To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
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To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- I scraped a pass in the exam.
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To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- Just use whatever you can scrape together.
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To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- He scraped and saved until he became rich.
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To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.
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To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin.
To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
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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.
- When the debate was resumed, the tide ran so strongly against the accused that his friends were coughed and scraped down. — 1841

forms

scraped · scraping · scrapes · scrapeth · scrapest

Phrases with scrape

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