Definition of scrape

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Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty..

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Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along..
Paw :: Paw (v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.
Erase :: Erase (v. t.) To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
Muckworm :: Muckworm (n.) One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser.
Scraped :: Scraped (imp. & p. p.) of Scrap.
Lint :: Lint (n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics..
Squill :: Squilgee (n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc..
Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment..
Scrape :: Scrape (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship..
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument with which anything is scraped.
Paw :: Paw (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely..
Rugine :: Rugine (v. t.) To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to scale..
Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..
Scraping :: Scraping (a.) Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser..
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