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scrape through

scrape through verb: to marginally manage to progress.

Verb

scrape through (third-person singular simple present scrapes through, present participle scraping through, simple past and past participle scraped through)

  1. (idiomatic) To marginally manage to progress.
    • The pass mark for the exam was 40%, and I scraped through with 43%.

scrape through meaning in Telugu and Kannada

scrape through in Telugu

marginally manage to progress
వెంట్రుకవాసిలో తప్పించుకొను veṇṭrukavāsilō tappiñcukonu

scrape through in Kannada

ಬಚಾವಾಗು, ನುಣುಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳು

Forms of scrape through

third-person singular presentscrapes through
present participlescraping through
past participlescraped through
pastscraped through

Questions about scrape through

What does scrape through mean?
Scrape through means to marginally manage to progress.
What is scrape through in Telugu?
Scrape through in Telugu is వెంట్రుకవాసిలో తప్పించుకొను (veṇṭrukavāsilō tappiñcukonu). See Scrape through meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is scrape through?
Scrape through is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrape through?
The past tense of scrape through is scraped through.

Words near scrape through in the dictionary

  1. scrape down
  2. scrape off
  3. scrape someone off the ceiling
  4. scrape the barrel
  5. scrape the bottom of the barrel
  6. scrape through
  7. scrape together
  8. scrape up
  9. scrape-good
  10. scrape-goods
  11. scrape-pennies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrape through (page history and authors); scrape through (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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