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| scrapes | |
| 1. n. plural of scrape |  |
| scrape | |
| 1. v. To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure. | |
| Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound. | |
| Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife. | |
| 2. v. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface. | |
| She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee. | |
| 3. v. To barely manage to achieve. | |
| I scraped a pass in the exam. | |
| 4. v. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen. | |
| Just use whatever you can scrape together. | |
| 5. v. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page. | |
| 6. v. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously. | |
| He scraped and saved until he became rich. | |
| 7. v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument. | |
| 8. v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow. | |
| 9. v. 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. | |
| 10. n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). | |
| He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee. | |
| 11. n. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. | |
| He got in a scrape with the school bully. | |
| 12. n. An awkward set of circumstances. | |
| I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present. | |
| 13. n. (UK, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage. | |
| 14. n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape. | |
