wikipedia|dab=scrape
English

Pronunciation
enPR|skr�p, IPA|/skreɪp/, SAMPA|/skreIp/
audio|en-us-scrape.ogg|Audio (US)
:rhymes|eɪp

Verb
en-verb|scrapes|scraping|scraped

1. To draw a sharp or angular object along (something) while exerting pressure.

#:Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound.

1. italbrac|followed by an adverb To cause something to be in the state implied by the adverb by scraping.

#:Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife. (= "remove the chewing gum with a knife by scraping")

1. To injure by scraping.

#:She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.

Synonyms
(draw a sharp object along while exerting pressure): grate, scratch
(cause to be in a certain state by scraping):
(injure by scraping): abrade, chafe, graze

Derived terms
bow and scrape
scrape by
scrape off
scrape through
scraper

Translations
trans-top|draw a sharp object along while exerting pressure
Czech: škrábat
Estonian: kriipima, kraapima, kraapama, kraapsima
French: gratter
Italian: grattare, graffiare <ref name="oxford-paravia">Mari Cristina Bareggia (ed.), Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese, Paravia (2003), ISBN 8839551107.</ref>
trans-mid
Portuguese: raspar
Spanish: raspar
Telugu: ��ర� (geeru)
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trans-top|cause to be in a certain state by scraping
Czech: škrábat
Estonian: kraapima, kaapima, kaabitsema, kõõpima
trans-mid
Italian: grattare, raschiare <ref name="oxford-paravia" />
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trans-top|injure by scraping
Czech: škrábat
Estonian: kriimustama, kriipima
trans-mid
Italian: graffiare, sbucciare| sbucciarsi <ref name="oxford-paravia" />
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Noun
en-noun

1. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

#:He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

1. A fight; especially a fist fight without weapons.

#:He got in a scrape with the school bully.

1. An awkward set of circumstances.

#:I'm in a bit of a scrape &mdash; I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

1. context|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.
#*1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother�s First Five Years, Hutchinson, page 232,
#*:In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D &amp; C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.
#*1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions, Routledge, ISBN 0415094542, page 236,
#*:The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not �nothing,� �just a scrape,� or �not a life.� It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.
#*1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems, Springer, ISBN 1852331097, page 16,
#*:17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

1. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

#*1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology, E. J. Brill, page 103,
#*:We knew from <span style="font-variant:small-caps">U. Weidmann</span>�s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before [&hellip;]
#*2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, Kingfisher Publications, ISBN 0753452693, page 85,
#*:The plover lays its eggs in a scrape on the ground. &para; [&hellip;] &para; Birds� nests can be little more than a scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.
#*2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801884292, page 95,
#*:Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).

Synonyms
(injury): abrasion, graze
(fight): altercation, brawl, fist fight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle
(awkward set of circumstances): bind, fix, mess, pickle

Quotations
2001, Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons, Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0618017682, page 172&ndash;173,
:He could hear deer moo in the woods, smell their musk, spot a scrape in a birch tree twenty feet away.
2005, Dragan Vujic, Hunting Farm Country Whitetails, iUniverse, ISBN 0595359841, page 58,
:Female whitetails periodically investigate scrapes created by specific bucks. As the doe approaches estrus and becomes receptive to breeding, she will urinate in a scrape as a sharp signal to the buck that she is ready for him.

Translations
trans-top|injury
Dutch: schram
trans-mid
Italian: graffio m, abrasione f <ref name="oxford-paravia" />
Spanish: abrasión f
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trans-top|fight
Italian: rissa f ref|5, bagarre f
trans-mid
Spanish: pelea f
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trans-top|awkward set of circumstances
Italian: pasticcio m, guaio f <ref name="oxford-paravia" />
trans-mid
Spanish: apuro m
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Derived terms
bread and scrape

References
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