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scraped by

scraped by is the simple past and past participle of scrape by.

Meaning of scrape by

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To only afford the essentials; to barely sustain oneself.
    • Everyone in her family had to get a second job just so they could scrape by.
    Synonyms:
    scratch by

Questions about scraped by

What is scraped by the simple past and past participle of?
Scraped by is the simple past and past participle of scrape by.

Words near scraped by in the dictionary

  1. scrapeable
  2. scrapeage
  3. scraped
  4. scraped along
  5. scraped at the bottom of the barrel
  6. scraped by
  7. scraped down
  8. scraped off
  9. scraped someone off the ceiling
  10. scraped the barrel
  11. scraped the bottom of the barrel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scraped by (page history and authors); scrape by (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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