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scrambing

scrambing is the present participle and gerund of scramb.

Meaning of scramb

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.

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Questions about scrambing

What is scrambing the present participle and gerund of?
Scrambing is the present participle and gerund of scramb.

Words near scrambing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrambing (page history and authors); scramb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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