vorbeischrammen

== German == === Etymology === vorbei- +‎ schrammen === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /foːɐ̯ˈbaɪ̯ˌʃʁamən/ Hyphenation: vor‧bei‧schram‧men === Verb === vorbeischrammen (weak, third-person singular present schrammt vorbei, past tense schrammte vorbei, past participle vorbeigeschrammt, auxiliary sein) (intransitive, colloquial) to narrowly miss out on something to narrowly avoid, to come within a whisker of something to graze (scratching or scraping on passing) ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “vorbeischrammen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “vorbeischrammen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “vorbeischrammen” in Duden online “vorbeischrammen” in OpenThesaurus.de