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Scrape up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To scrape completely; cover all over with scrapes. transitive

    "He should not have used that old dirty rag. Look how it scraped up his paint job."

  2. 2
    gather (money or other resources) together over time wordnet
  3. 3
    to collect together by scraping transitive

    "scrape up all the dirt left in the bath."

  4. 4
    to gather together something needed (especially money) transitive

    "If I empty all my pockets, search around the house, and ask a few friends for a loan, I should be able to scrape up enough money to buy that new suit."

  5. 5
    To clean a roller and slab by removing ink. obsolete, transitive

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