Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty

Examples

1 sentences

  1. I sold my house and furniture, together with my jewelry, in order to scrape together a half a million.

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Translations

3 languages

Forms

scrapes together, scraping together, scraped together, scraped together
Base formscrape together · to scrape together
3rd person singularscrapes together
Present participlescraping together
Past simplescraped together
Past participlescraped together

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscrape together
he, she, itscrapes together

Past simpleLesson

all personsscraped together

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scraped together
he, she, ithas scraped together

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scrape together

Synonyms

3 synonyms
rake togetherrustle upscratch together

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scrapbookscrapescraperscrapingscratchB2
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