scrape
/skɹeɪp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
verb
To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
Transitive verb
verb
To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
Transitive verb
verb
To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
Example Sentences
- "She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails."
- "That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance."
- "Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."
- "She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."
- "We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads."
- "I scraped a pass in the exam."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scrapen, skrapa, scrapian, *skrapōną, *skrebʰ-