Outscrape
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To escape Scotland, intransitive, obsolete
- 2 To scrape out rare, transitive
"The chairs were five degrees above Windsor, the carpet was ingrain, with huge circles, whose outlines were nearly outscraped, it having been stamped under foot for many years before Madam Tag had forced it to do a passive duty in her oracular chambers."
- 3 To scrape better than; exceed or outdo in scraping transitive
"But there was neither harmony nor melody in their tones, for they belonged to the different stages and shows ; and if the musicians agreed in any thing, it seemed only in the efforts which they made to outscrape, outscreech, outblow and outdrum each other."
Example
More examples"The chairs were five degrees above Windsor, the carpet was ingrain, with huge circles, whose outlines were nearly outscraped, it having been stamped under foot for many years before Madam Tag had forced it to do a passive duty in her oracular chambers."
Etymology
From out- + scrape, or possibly continuing Middle English outscrapen (“to remove, erase”).
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