Definitions from Wiktionary (scrape)
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
▸ verb: (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
▸ verb: (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
▸ verb: (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
▸ verb: (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
▸ verb: 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: A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
▸ noun: The sound or action of something being scraped.
▸ noun: Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
▸ noun: (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
▸ noun: An awkward set of circumstances.
▸ noun: (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
▸ noun: A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
▸ noun: (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
▸ noun: (UK, slang) A shave.
▸ noun: (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
▸ noun: (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
▸ noun: (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
▸ noun: An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
▸ Also see scrape
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▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
▸ verb: (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
▸ verb: (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
▸ verb: (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
▸ verb: (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
▸ verb: 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: A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
▸ noun: The sound or action of something being scraped.
▸ noun: Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
▸ noun: (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
▸ noun: An awkward set of circumstances.
▸ noun: (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
▸ noun: A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
▸ noun: (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
▸ noun: (UK, slang) A shave.
▸ noun: (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
▸ noun: (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
▸ noun: (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
▸ noun: An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
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