scrapes

Noun

scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)

1. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
   • He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

   Synonyms:

   abrasion, graze

2. The sound or action of something being scraped.
   • For a long while, the only sounds in the café were the scrapes of forks against old white plates and occasional slurps from coffee mugs.2000, Liz Ireland, The Sheriff and the E-mail Bride, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 174

   Synonyms:

   scraping

3. Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
   • A little solace came at tea time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half-slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: […]1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, in Jane Eyre. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 107

   Synonyms:

   scraping

4. (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
   • He got in a scrape with the school bully.

   Synonyms:

   altercation, brawl, fistfight, fight, fisticuffs, punch-up, scuffle

5. An awkward set of circumstances.
   • I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

   Synonyms:

   bind, fix, mess, pickle

6. (UK, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
   • It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union....

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