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scrooped

scrooped is the simple past and past participle of scroop.

Meaning of scroop

Verb

scroop (third-person singular simple present scroops, present participle scrooping, simple past and past participle scrooped)

  1. To make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
    • I exclaimed in a loud voice, scrooping back my chair on the brick floor and standing up.1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 628 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston )
  2. To produce a rustling sound, like that from friction between silk fibers.
    • The friction causes the silk to scroop.

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Questions about scrooped

What is scrooped the simple past and past participle of?
Scrooped is the simple past and past participle of scroop.

Words near scrooped in the dictionary

  1. scroonch
  2. scroonched
  3. scroonches
  4. scroonching
  5. scroop
  6. scrooped
  7. scrooping
  8. scroops
  9. scroot
  10. scrootch
  11. scrootched

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