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Scrapes
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
📖 Definitions of "Scrapes"
- 1
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."
- 2
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
"He got in a scrape with the school bully."
- 3
An awkward set of circumstances.
"I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present."
- 4
A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- 1
To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
"Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard."
- 2
To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
"Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."
- 3
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
"She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."
- 4
To barely manage to achieve.
"I scraped a pass in the exam."
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