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scramb

scramb verb: to scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw, to scram.

Verb

scramb (third-person singular simple present scrambs, present participle scrambing, simple past and past participle scrambed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw, to scram.
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To pull down or rip off (something) with force.
  3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To scrape (something) together with the hands.

Noun

scramb (plural scrambs)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) A handful of something scraped together.

Forms of scramb

Verb
third-person singular presentscrambs
present participlescrambing
past participlescrambed
pastscrambed
Noun
pluralscrambs

Origin of scramb

The verb, especially sense 2 (“to scratch with the claws or fingernails”), is possibly related to Dutch schrammen (“to graze, scratch”) and German schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”), from Late Middle High German schramm, schramme (“a graze, scratch”); further etymology unknown. The noun is derived from the verb.

Questions about scramb

What does scramb mean?
Scramb means to scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw, to scram.
What part of speech is scramb?
Scramb can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of scramb?
The past tense of scramb is scrambed.

Words near scramb in the dictionary

  1. scram
  2. scramasax
  3. scramasaxes
  4. scramaseax
  5. scramaseaxes
  6. scramb
  7. scrambed
  8. scrambing
  9. scramblase
  10. scramblases
  11. scramble

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