scrape
About 1.51 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
- verb To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.
- verb To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
- verb To barely manage to achieve or attain.
I scraped a pass in the exam.
- verb To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
Just use whatever you can scrape together.
- verb To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.
- verb To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
He scraped and saved until he became rich.
- verb To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin.
Similar words
scrape up scratching scratch abrade abrasion excoriation stub genuflect kowtow scar
Often followed by
the off together of up and it away out
Word family
scraped scraper scrapers scrapes scraping scrapings
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