Meaning

13 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

    He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

    Schramme, Schürfwunde, Kratzer

    цара́пинаcarápina

  2. (countable, uncountable)The sound or action of something being scraped.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

    He got in a scrape with the school bully.

    Kampf, Boxkampf, Faustkampf

    сты́чкаstýčka, дра́каdráka, потасо́вкаpotasóvka

  5. (countable, uncountable)An awkward set of circumstances.

    I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

    Zwickmühle, Klemme

    неприя́тностьneprijátnostʹ, затрудне́ниеzatrudnénije

  6. (UK, countable, slang, uncountable)A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A shallow pit dug as a hideout.

  9. (UK, countable, slang, uncountable)A shave.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.

    Alternative form: scarpe

  11. (countable, uncountable)An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.

  12. (UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Cheap butter.

More definitions
  • a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
  • a harsh noise made by scraping
  • an indication of damage
  • an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

Examples

83 sentences
  1. The boy fell and scraped his knee.

    ruМальчик упал и поцарапал колено.

    deDer Junge fiel hin und schürfte sich das Knie auf.

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  2. Don't scrape your chair on the floor.

    ruНе царапай стулом пол.

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  3. He scraped the mud off his boots.

    deEr kratzte den Dreck von seinen Stiefeln.

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  4. Tom scraped the mud off his boots.

    deTom kratzte den Dreck von seinen Stiefeln.

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  5. Tom scraped the scales off the fish.

    ruТом очистил рыбу от чешуи.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
injury:
fight:
awkward set of circumstances:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
injury:
fight:
awkward set of circumstances:

Origin

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”).

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Forms

plural: scrapes
Singularscrape
Pluralscrapes

regular

Synonyms

19 synonyms
awkward set of circumstances:bindB2fixA2messB1pickleB2
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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