[skreɪp], (Verb)

Definitions:
- drag or pull a hard or sharp implement across (a surface or object) so as to remove dirt or other matter
(e.g: remove the green tops from the carrots and scrape them)

- rub or cause to rub by accident against a rough or hard surface, causing damage or injury
(e.g: he smashed into the wall and felt his teeth scrape against the plaster)

- narrowly pass by or through something
(e.g: there was only just room to scrape through between the tree and the edge of the stream)

- copy (data) from a website using a computer program
(e.g: all search engines scrape content from sites without permission and display it on their own sites)


Phrases:
- scrape acquaintance with
- scrape the barrel

Origin:
Old English scrapian ‘scratch with the fingernails’, of Germanic origin, reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse skrapa or Middle Dutch schrapen ‘to scratch’

[skreɪp], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act or sound of scraping
(e.g: he heard the scrape of his mother's key in the lock)

- a procedure of dilatation of the cervix and curettage of the uterus

- an embarrassing or difficult predicament caused by one's own unwise behaviour
(e.g: he'd been in worse scrapes than this before now)


Phrases:
- scrape acquaintance with
- scrape the barrel

Origin:
Old English scrapian ‘scratch with the fingernails’, of Germanic origin, reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse skrapa or Middle Dutch schrapen ‘to scratch’