scrape

Plural: scrapes

Noun

• a harsh noise made by scraping
  • "the scrape of violin bows distracted her"
• an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
• a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
• an indication of damage
• A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
• The sound or action of something being scraped.
• Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
• A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
• An awkward set of circumstances.
• A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
• A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
• A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
• A shave.
• Cheap butter.
• Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
• A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
• An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.

Verb

Verb Forms: scraped, scraping, scrapes

• To rub roughly against a surface, often to remove something.
• scratch repeatedly
  • "The cat scraped at the armchair"
• make by scraping
  • "They scraped a letter into the stone"
• cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
• bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
• gather (money or other resources) together over time
  • "She had scraped together enough money for college"
• bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
• To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
• To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
• To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
• To barely manage to achieve or attain.
• To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
• To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
• To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
• To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
• 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.

Examples

• He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
• He got in a scrape with the school bully.
• He scraped and saved until he became rich.
• He would SCRAPE together enough points for the lead, even with difficult letters.
• I scraped a pass in the exam.
• I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
• Just use whatever you can scrape together.
• Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
• She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
• She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
• Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin.
• That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
• They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

Synonyms

abrasion, come up, excoriation, genuflect, grate, kowtow, mark, scar, scrape up, scraping, scratch, scratch up, scratching, skin, abrade, altercation, bind, brawl, chafe, compare drag, fight, fistfight, fisticuffs, fix, graze, mess, pickle, punch-up, scuffle

Anagrams of scrape