scrape

Meaning

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
2. (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
3. (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
4. (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
5. (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
6. (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.
7. (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
8. (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
9. (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
10. 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

1. (countable, uncountable) A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
2. (countable, uncountable) The sound or action of something being scraped.
3. (countable, uncountable) Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
5. (countable, uncountable) An awkward set of circumstances.
6. (British, countable, slang, uncountable) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
7. (countable, uncountable) A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
8. (countable, uncountable) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
9. (UK, countable, slang, uncountable) A shave.
10. (UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Cheap butter.
11. (UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
12. (countable, uncountable) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
13. (countable, uncountable) An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.

Synonyms

scratch

rub

grate

abrasion

graze

shave

claw

scrub

scour

pick at

plane

abrade

rasp

polish

🇵🇱

smooth

scraping

rake

skin

difficulty

brush

chafe

grind

mark

scrape up

cut

erase

scar

file

excoriation

pick off

scratch up

squeak

trouble

rub off

jam

shred

sharpen

dig

remove

depilate

delve

scratching

scrape off

save

scraper

come up

collect

pick

⛏️

paw

muddle

Translations

gratter

racler

raspar

kratzen

rascar

schaben

raspar

grattare

raschiare

graffiare

schrapen

krassen

scharren

râcler

frotter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹeɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: scrapen

Inherited from Old English: scrapian

Cognate with Dutch: schrapen

Cognate with German: schrappen

Cognate with Danish: skrabe

Cognate with Icelandic: skrapa

Cognate with Walloon: screper

Cognate with Latin: scribō

In summary

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”).
Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).