Definitions
1.VerbTo draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure."She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.; That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance."
2.VerbTo remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner."Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."
3.VerbTo injure or damage by rubbing across a surface."She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."
4.VerbTo barely manage to achieve or attain."I scraped a pass in the exam."
5.VerbTo collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen."Just use whatever you can scrape together."
6.VerbTo extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page."They didn't provide an API, so I simply scraped their website."
7.VerbTo occupy oneself with getting laboriously."He scraped and saved until he became rich."
8.VerbTo play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument."Some people covered their ears when he started to scrape his violin."
9.VerbTo draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
10.VerbTo express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
11.NounA 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."
12.NounThe sound or action of something being scraped.
13.NounSomething removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
14.NounA fight, especially a fistfight without weapons."He got in a scrape with the school bully."
15.NounAn awkward set of circumstances."I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present."
16.NounA D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
17.NounA shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
18.NounA shallow pit dug as a hideout.
19.NounA shave.
20.NounCheap butter.
21.NounButter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
22.NounA diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
23.NounAn intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.