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scrape up

scrape up verb: to scrape completely; cover all over with scrapes.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To scrape completely; cover all over with scrapes.
    • He should not have used that old dirty rag. Look how it scraped up his paint job.
  2. (transitive) to collect together by scraping
    • scrape up all the dirt left in the bath.
  3. (transitive) to gather together something needed (especially money)
    • If I empty all my pockets, search around the house, and ask a few friends for a loan, I should be able to scrape up enough money to buy that new suit.
    Synonyms:
    scrape together
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To clean a roller and slab by removing ink.

Synonyms of scrape up

Forms of scrape up

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

Questions about scrape up

What does scrape up mean?
Scrape up means to scrape completely; cover all over with scrapes.
What part of speech is scrape up?
Scrape up is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrape up?
The past tense of scrape up is scraped up.

Words near scrape up in the dictionary

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

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