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Plural of scrape

regular plural

The plural of scrape is scrapes.

Forms of scrape

Singularscrape /skɹeɪp/
Pluralscrapes
Countablecountable and uncountable

Scrapes in a sentence

  • That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
  • For a long while, the only sounds in the café were the scrapes of forks against old white plates and occasional slurps from coffee mugs.2000, Liz Ireland, The Sheriff and the E-mail Bride, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 174
  • I've got into a few scrapes in my time.From the entry in someone's time
  • Kanye's gotten into some scrapes before and normally when he's in trouble, I pull up immediately.2022 November 13, Dave Chappelle (quoted), Sarah Grant, “'SNL': Watch Dave Chappelle on Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, and Why America Isn't…. From the entry pull up
  • The scraps, the scrapes, the sessions — oh, what fun we had.2012, Fred Eyre, Kicked into Touch: Plus Extra Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry has left the building

Meaning of scrape

  1. verb To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
  2. verb To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
  3. verb To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

Full definition of scrape

Questions about the plural of scrape

What is the plural of scrape?
The plural of scrape is scrapes.
Is scrape countable?
Scrape is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrape (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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