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scraped someone off the ceiling

scraped someone off the ceiling is the simple past and past participle of scrape someone off the ceiling.

Meaning of scrape someone off the ceiling

Verb

scrape someone off the ceiling (third-person singular simple present scrapes someone off the ceiling, present participle scraping someone off the ceiling, simple past and past participle scraped someone off the ceiling)

  1. (idiomatic) Used to describe the response to someone who is either experiencing great pain, who is very frightened, or is very elated.
    • He would come over to my office at least once a week and explode because somebody had been after him. And I would scrape him off the ceiling and send him back until the next week.1979, A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971
    Synonyms:
    pull someone off the ceiling, peel someone off the ceiling

Questions about scraped someone off the ceiling

What is scraped someone off the ceiling the simple past and past participle of?
Scraped someone off the ceiling is the simple past and past participle of scrape someone off the ceiling.

Words near scraped someone off the ceiling in the dictionary

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

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