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scrapes up

scrapes up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrape up.

Meaning of scrape up

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.

Questions about scrapes up

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

Words near scrapes up in the dictionary

  1. scrapes someone off the ceiling
  2. scrapes the barrel
  3. scrapes the bottom of the barrel
  4. scrapes through
  5. scrapes together
  6. scrapes up
  7. scrapest
  8. scrapeth
  9. scrapey
  10. scrapheap
  11. scrapheaps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrapes up (page history and authors); scrape up (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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