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scrawm

scrawm verb: to tear or scratch.

Verb

scrawm (third-person singular simple present scrawms, present participle scrawming, simple past and past participle scrawmed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To tear or scratch.

Forms of scrawm

third-person singular presentscrawms
present participlescrawming
past participlescrawmed
pastscrawmed

Origin of scrawm

Probably from Dutch schrammen, from schram (“a rent, a tear”).

Questions about scrawm

What does scrawm mean?
Scrawm means to tear or scratch.
What part of speech is scrawm?
Scrawm is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrawm?
The past tense of scrawm is scrawmed.

Words near scrawm in the dictionary

  1. scrawls down
  2. scrawls off
  3. scrawls out
  4. scrawls up
  5. scrawly
  6. scrawm
  7. scrawmed
  8. scrawming
  9. scrawms
  10. scrawn
  11. scrawnier

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