scrape

== English == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === enPR: skrāp, IPA(key): /skɹeɪp/ Rhymes: -eɪp === Verb === scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping, simple past and past participle scraped) (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure. Synonym: scuff (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner. (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface. (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain. Synonyms: labor, squeeze, limp, squeak Antonyms: stroll, breeze, ride, coast, romp (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen. (computing, 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. (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously. (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument. (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow. 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. ==== Synonyms ==== (draw an object along while exerting pressure): grate, scratch; compare drag (injure by scraping): abrade, chafe, graze ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes) A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). The sound or action of something being scraped. Synonym: scraping Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread. Synonym: scraping (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. An awkward set of circumstances. (UK, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage. 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session, United States Government Printing Office, page 127, It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape. (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout. (UK, slang) A shave. (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter. (uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again. (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width. Alternative form: scarpe Coordinate term: baton An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds. ==== Synonyms ==== (injury): abrasion, graze (fight): altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle (awkward set of circumstances): bind, fix, mess, pickle See also Thesaurus:injury ==== Derived terms ==== bread and scrape pick scrape ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== (a shave; butter): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary === Anagrams === crapes, Casper, pacers, secpar, Pacers, recaps, escarp, scarpe, e-scrap, Cresap, spacer, Scaper, CASREP, scaper, parsec, capers, sparce == Middle English == === Etymology === From scrapen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskraːp(ə)/ === Noun === scrape (plural scrapes) (Late Middle English, rare) scratching ==== Descendants ==== English: scrape ==== References ==== “scrāpe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.