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scramp

scramp verb: to catch at; to snatch.

Verb

scramp (third-person singular simple present scramps, present participle scramping, simple past and past participle scramped)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To catch at; to snatch.

Forms of scramp

third-person singular presentscramps
present participlescramping
past participlescramped
pastscramped

Questions about scramp

What does scramp mean?
Scramp means to catch at; to snatch.
What part of speech is scramp?
Scramp is a verb.
What is the past tense of scramp?
The past tense of scramp is scramped.

Words near scramp in the dictionary

  1. scraming
  2. scramjet
  3. scramjets
  4. scrammed
  5. scramming
  6. scramp
  7. scramped
  8. scramping
  9. scramps
  10. scrams
  11. scran

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