verb · transitive

scrab

scrab · scrabs · scrabbed · scrabbing

To scrape or scratchTo scrape or scratch.

/skɹæb/

Origin

From Middle French and Old French schrabben (“to scrape, scratch”), from Frankish *skaban,

From Middle French and Old French schrabben (“to scrape, scratch”), from Frankish *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”); compare Old High German skaban, Irish scríobann and sgrìoban.

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Forms

scrabs, scrabbing, scrabbed, scrabbed

Base form	scrab · to scrab
3rd person singular	scrabs
Present participle	scrabbing
Past simple	scrabbed
Past participle	scrabbed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	scrab
he, she, it	scrabs

Past simpleLesson

all persons

scrabbed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have scrabbed
he, she, it	has scrabbed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will scrab

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle