Scraping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCRAPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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:
• scraped off
• 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.
• act of scraping
• The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
• Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
• (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected
• a harsh noise made by scraping
• a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
• an embarrassing or difficult predicament caused by one's own unwise behaviour
ADJECTIVE:
• Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to rub so as to remove an outer layer

Words related to SCRAPING

rasure6 scrape10 scraped12 scrapes11 scrapings14

Words that contain SCRAPING

scrapings14 skyscraping23

How to use SCRAPING in a sentence

• At the end of the corridor he heard the closing of the door, the scraping of the key.
• Here, by scraping, you may discover hundreds of these loathsome beasts in every foot of wall.
• Yells responded, and in the hush that fell upon the final shot a noise of fugitive feet scraping and stumbling on cobbles.
• As soon as the third leaf appeared the process of scraping commenced, which consisted of cleaning the ridge with hoes of all superfluous plants and all weeds and grass.
• He always paints on the same canvas, scraping off one picture to make room for another.
• But the knocking was more like a scraping and it was followed by a low whine.
• There was no bowing and scraping to us in that flight into the mountains, I can tell you.
• On his coming into office, the treasury was empty, there was no scraping together as much as five thousand livres.
• The slight, familiar scraping on the ice told him that Fred and Jennie were at his heels.
• There came a scraping sound at the door, and a gasping moan.
• Then it raised its claws and began the scraping fiddle which once before had drawn its prey out of hiding.
• The Indian women prepare it by scraping and drying.
• There were scraping sounds first, and later the sound of a falling body.
• He had his head bent down naturally, his hat well drawn over his face, and he went on scratching and scraping as if his very life depended on the energy with which he worked.
• The constant laughing and talking, the music, and the scraping of feet on the sanded floor make an awful din.
• The women are fond of painting themselves with red ochre, which they lay thickly over their heads, after scraping off the hair with a flint-knife.
• Cash would have to do some washing and scraping, when it came his turn to cook.
• Cantwell got out of the room while some of the members were still scraping their chairs into place.
• Somebody else indicated a chair, which, with a hideous, noisy scraping over the bare floor, he modestly insinuated between two occupied chairs.
• But fearing that sparks might yet be smouldering under the bark or in the dry wood, Charley began scraping the sides of the stump.
• He was scraping an old palette as we entered, and advanced with it in one hand, while he saluted me with the air of a gentleman and the simplicity of an honest man.
• Whatever his own immediate object might be in thus scraping an acquaintance made no difference.
• Challow made up for his neglect of the killing by zeal in the scalding and scraping.
• Here Johnnie Jones tripped and fell, scraping his leg against a sharp stone, and straining and bruising his arm quite badly.
• Make the gravy in the roasting-pan, by setting it on top of the stove, and first scraping up all the browning from the corners and bottom.

Similar words containing SCRAP without suffix ing

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