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scraping through

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

Meaning of scrape through

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To marginally manage to progress.
    • The pass mark for the exam was 40%, and I scraped through with 43%.

Questions about scraping through

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

Words near scraping through in the dictionary

  1. scraping down
  2. scraping off
  3. scraping someone off the ceiling
  4. scraping the barrel
  5. scraping the bottom of the barrel
  6. scraping through
  7. scraping together
  8. scraping up
  9. scrapingly
  10. scrapings
  11. scrapless

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