How do you use the word "scrape" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "scrape": Would you scrape that rusty pan? Please scrape the skin off the potatoes.

Scrape Meaning

/skɹeɪp/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

verbTo remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.

Sentence Examples

Would you scrape that rusty pan?

Please scrape the skin off the potatoes.

I managed to get out of the scrape.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

scratch grate abrasion

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The construction worker will ____ the rough surface with sandpaper to smooth it.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He managed to ____ together enough money for the deposit by working extra shifts.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads." — 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 8:

"The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily “scraped” as many Geocities^([sic]) pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks." — 2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist:

"And he shall spend mine honour with his shame, As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold" — 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

"At that time the Grand Duke had only two occupations. One was to scrape the violin, the other to train spaniels for hunting." — 2010 January 5, Leslie Carroll, Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire, Penguin, →ISBN:

"Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis." — 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 425:

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