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scrape

verb as in scratch, remove outer layer

verb as in be very frugal

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Example Sentences

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Defense attorneys said Ramos-Brito sustained multiple contusions on his face, neck and back and had cuts and scrapes on his body from being dragged across the pavement later.

The arrowhead painfully “scrapes against the underside of her shoulder blade every time she moves,” according to DonkeyLand.

They confuse cruelty with bravery and kindness with weakness while scraping and bowing before their dark lord Donny.

From Salon

"So I think human civilization has an element of that too, and we will scrape through."

From BBC

Claudine Singer, 72, brings knee pads so she can crouch in the street to scrape out the gutters with a metal claw.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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