Scrapes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCRAPES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SCRAPE, to rub and make a grating sound
• drag or pull a hard or sharp implement across (a surface or object) so as to remove dirt or other matter
• use a sharp or hard implement to remove (dirt or unwanted matter) from something
• apply (a hard or sharp implement) to a surface so as to remove dirt or other matter
• make (a hollow) by scraping away soil or rock
• rub or cause to rub by accident against a rough or hard surface, causing damage or injury
• draw or move (something) along or over something else, making a harsh noise
• move with or make a harsh scraping sound
• play a violin tunelessly
• spread (butter or margarine) thinly over bread
• narrowly pass by or through something
• barely manage to succeed in a particular undertaking
• just manage to achieve; accomplish with great effort or difficulty
• collect or accumulate something with difficulty
• try to save as much money as possible; economize
• manage to live with difficulty
• copy (data) from a website using a computer program
• draw one's hair tightly back off the forehead
NOUN:
• an act or sound of scraping
• an injury or mark caused by scraping
• a place where soil has been scraped away, especially a shallow hollow formed in the ground by a bird during a courtship display or for nesting
• a thinly applied layer of butter or margarine on bread
• an obsequious bow in which one foot is drawn backwards along the ground.
• a procedure of dilatation of the cervix and curettage of the uterus.
• an embarrassing or difficult predicament caused by one's own unwise behaviour
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to rub so as to remove an outer layer

Words related to SCRAPES

scrape10 scraped12 scraping13

How to use SCRAPES in a sentence

• The dredge is thus dragged along and scrapes oysters and other sea-animals and plants, stones, and mud into the bag.
• Yes, Tom and I have been in plenty of bad scrapes, and pulled out just because we set our teeth and refused to admit we were down and out.
• But, on the other hand, remember the good advice which Bacon ever gave him, and his constant efforts to keep him out of scrapes.
• This habit got him into many awkward scrapes, but his herculean power as often got him out of them.
• He was known in the profession as Slippery George, from the easy manner in which he glided out of scrapes that would have been fatal to the reputation of any other lawyer.
• Then afterward I gave the other two the benefit of what we had studied, got them out of scrapes, and indeed, being with them so much, kept them out.
• It was her standing consolation, and it brought her into all her scrapes.
• Once or twice Langdon had helped Sanderson out of scrapes that would have sent him home from college without his degree, had they come to the ears of the faculty.
• Like all youngsters running over with the joy of youth and life, he got into his full share of scrapes.
• I only tell you now to give you an idea of the nature of my embarrassments and scrapes.
• This is one of the scrapes into which you are ever leading us.
• Sharp was a ready and an accurate shot, and as lucky as a brand-new penny at coming clear from his scrapes.
• Through my want of restraint I got into all kinds of scrapes.
• I was as wild as a mustang and as tough as a pine knot, and the scrapes that I managed to get into were too numerous to mention.
• But a poet whose bark carries so heavy a cargo of thought may be forgiven if occasionally it scrapes the bottom.
• His very timidity and his numerous scrapes called forth pity in the first instance, and then I saw more.
• It looks as though he had the same happy faculty for getting into scrapes that distinguished my young friend Glen Eddy.
• He was in several scrapes along with a boon companion who seems to have been so much like him, physically and morally, that, mother-like, Mrs.
• I am well acquainted with the scrapes that young fellows sometimes get into.
• Now, it is a peculiar thing that young fellows often get into very bad scrapes indeed in pursuing their peculiar ideals of manliness.
• He had a wonderful facility for getting into scrapes, and an equally wonderful facility for getting out of them again, falling on his feet like a cat.
• She produces a bit of cheese, scrapes it with a knife which she holds by the blade, and swallows it slowly.
• When I was your age, I was always getting into just such scrapes as this, simply because I used to burn up all my powder without taking aim.
• Were it not that I am continually giving up my time to getting them out of scrapes, I would be able to give more attention to my own work.
• Prescott would have been appointed corporal, but for his reputation for dodging out of the biggest scrapes of his class.
• He was never out of scrapes at home, but he was always good with me.
• Not that it very much matters, because some one always turns up in the nick of time to help us out of our scrapes.
• I opposed the majority of novels because they were made chiefly to set forth desperate love scrapes.
• My curiosity to hunt up a new sensation always leads me into these scrapes.
• A leaf stirs, a toe scrapes, and instantly Kookooskoos is there.
• But I asked him if he had thought about his music when he got into these scrapes.
• So keep out of scrapes, and, above all things, be on your guard against your friends.

Similar words containing SCRAPE without suffix s

scrape10 scraped12 scraper11 scrapers12 scrapegut14 scrapegood16 scrapeguts15 skyscraper21 scrapegoods17 scrapepenny20 skyscrapers22 scraperboard19 scrapepennies19 scraperboards20

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