Usually means: Remove material by dragging tool.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word scrape:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scrape: Merriam-Webster
  3. scrape, scrape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scrape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scrape: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scrape: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scrape, scrape: Wordnik
  8. scrape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scrape: Wiktionary
  10. scrape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scrape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scrape: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scrape: Dictionary.com
  14. scrape: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scrape: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scrape (Blue Stahli song), Scrape (disambiguation), Scrape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scrape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scrape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scrape: Rhymezone
  20. scrape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scrape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Scrape: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. scrape: FreeDictionary.org
  24. scrape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. scrape: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. scrape: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrape: Legal dictionary
  2. scrape: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrape: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scrape: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Scrape: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  4. scrape: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Scrape: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrape: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrape, scrape: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Scrape: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Scrape, scrape: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scraped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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