scrape
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- 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.
Noun
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- A shave.
- Cheap butter.
- Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
- A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
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