scrape

Meaning

Verb

1. To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
2. To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
3. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
4. To barely manage to achieve.
5. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
6. 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. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
8. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
9. 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. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
2. The sound or action of something being scraped.
3. Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
4. (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
5. An awkward set of circumstances.
6. (slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
7. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
8. A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
9. (slang) A shave.
10. (obsolete,slang) Cheap butter.
11. (obsolete,slang) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
12. A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
13. An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.

Synonyms

scratch

rub

grate

abrasion

graze

shave

claw

scrub

pick at

scour

rasp

abrade

plane

smooth

polish

🇵🇱

skin

rake

difficulty

scraping

chafe

brush

mark

grind

excoriation

erase

cut

trouble

jam

sharpen

remove

scrape up

scratch up

file

rub off

scar

dig

shred

pick off

squeak

reduce

drag

pick

⛏️

scrabble

paw

scratch oneself

scrape off

scraper

grince

embarrassment

scratching

save

muddle

come up

trim

dig up

collect

be scraped

whet

whittle

wipe

kowtow

delve

genuflect

peel

depilate

problem

pull in

puzzlement

quarrel

raise

raze

rend

ricochet

rub out

scabrousness

scarify

scoop

score

scrapping

scrunch

scuff

severity

shine

snag

sound

🔉

split

squawk

stew

🍲

stick

strike

summon

suspense

take up

tangle

tear

pare down

rub together

take a bow

touch

venerate

wear away

work up

write

✍️

drum up

fender bender

file down

kneading-trough

muster up

rub against

skim over

tight corner

venial sin

minor collision

depasture

strickling

make bright

dig with fingers

just graze

just miss

pass closely

paw with hooves

rub over

peel away

redicament

dehair

be a miser

paw all over

arduousness

assemble

bewilderment

bow

🙇

burnish

carve

carve out

catch

challenge

chip

clamor

clapperclaw

clean

clean out

clean up

complexity

complicacy

constraint

creak

crush

cut up

dig out

dilemma

draw

emergency

entanglement

etc.

etch

fade

farm

fix

gather

glean

grace

grating

hassle

hew

hitch

hollow

hone

hot water

inconvenience

intricacy

itch

lacerate

limping

mess

miser

mystification

necessity

nick

pare

pare off

paring

patter

peccadillo

perplexity

pickle

pluck

plunder

poke

pound

💷

predicament

probe

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”).