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scrapes by

scrapes by is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 scrapes by

What is scrapes by the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scrapes by is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrape by.

Words near scrapes by in the dictionary

  1. scraperboards
  2. scrapers
  3. scrapes
  4. scrapes along
  5. scrapes at the bottom of the barrel
  6. scrapes by
  7. scrapes down
  8. scrapes off
  9. scrapes someone off the ceiling
  10. scrapes the barrel
  11. scrapes the bottom of the barrel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrapes 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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