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verb (used with object)
1.
to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
2.
to remove (an outer layer, adhering matter, etc.) in this way: to scrape the paint and varnish from a table.
3.
to scratch, injure, or mar the surface of in this way: to scrape one's arm on a rough wall.
4.
to produce by scraping: He scraped his initials on the rock.
5.
EXPANDto collect or do by or as if by scraping; do or gather laboriously or with difficulty (usually followed by up or together): They managed to scrape together a football team.
6.
to rub harshly on or across (something): Don't scrape the floor with your boots!
7.
to draw or rub (a thing) roughly across something: Scrape your shoes on the doormat before you come in.
8.
COLLAPSEto level (an unpaved road) with a grader.
verb (used without object)
9.
to scrape something.
10.
to rub against something gratingly.
11.
to produce a grating and unmusical tone from a string instrument.
12.
to draw one's foot back noisily along the ground in making a bow.
13.
EXPANDto manage or get by with difficulty or with only the barest margin: I barely scraped through on the test.
14.
COLLAPSEto economize or save by attention to even the slightest amounts: By careful scraping they managed to survive.
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Scraped
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English scrapen < Old Norse skrapa; replacing Middle English shrapen, Old English scrapian to scratch (cognate with Old Norse skrapa); (noun) late Middle English: scraper, derivative of the v.
before 1000; (v.) Middle English scrapen < Old Norse skrapa; replacing Middle English shrapen, Old English scrapian to scratch (cognate with Old Norse skrapa); (noun) late Middle English: scraper, derivative of the v.
Related forms
scrap·a·ble, adjective
scrape·age, noun
un·scraped, adjective
Synonyms
14. scrimp, stint, pinch.
14. scrimp, stint, pinch.
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Word Origin & History
scrape
c.1300, probably from O.N. skrapa "to scrape, erase," from P.Gmc. *skrapojan (cf. O.E. scrapian "to scrape," Du. schrapen, Ger. schrappen). The noun is attested from c.1440. Meaning "embarrassing or awkward predicament" is recorded from 1709, as OED suggests, "probably from the notion of being 'scraped'
EXPANDin going through a narrow passage." To scrape the bottom of the barrel in figurative sense is from 1942.
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