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scraping along

scraping along is the present participle and gerund of scrape along.

Meaning of scrape along

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, with on or with) to barely be able to survive

Questions about scraping along

What is scraping along the present participle and gerund of?
Scraping along is the present participle and gerund of scrape along.

Words near scraping along in the dictionary

  1. scrapie
  2. scrapied
  3. scrapies
  4. scrapin'
  5. scraping
  6. scraping along
  7. scraping and bowing
  8. scraping at the bottom of the barrel
  9. scraping by
  10. scraping down
  11. scraping off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scraping along (page history and authors); scrape along (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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