English Dictionary

scrape

/skɹeɪp/

noun

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). / (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. / An awkward set of circumstances.

I used a scrape to remove the paint from the wall.

意味（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.

意味（2）

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

He got in a scrape with the school bully.

意味（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.

意味（4）

(Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

意味（5）

A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]

意味（6）

(military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.

In between rounds, he dug a scrape for himself with his entrenching tool.

意味（7）

(UK, slang) A shave.

A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

(uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.

Got a nice bit of haddock for tonight. Thought I might do it with a poached egg, bit of pepper, bread and scrape