Scraping

Synonyms for "scraping" (42 found)

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Closest matches (9)

Noun(1 words)

scrape

ablation abrasion abrasive attrition chafe cheeseparing curtailment cutback

Strong matches (12)

dressing economizing erasure erosion filing fretting friction grating grazing grinding grovelling harsh

Related words (21)

jangling jarring rasp rasping retrenchment sanding saving scouring scrape scratchy scrimping scrub scuff shuffle skimping slowdown sparing strident wear

Noun(2 words)

scratch scratching

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

5 entries

bow bowing fragment noise obeisance

Synonyms

1 entries

scrape

derived

4 entries

bowing and scraping data scraping screen scraping web scraping

derived from

1 entries

scrape

form of

1 entries

scrape

is a

1 entries

fragment

related to

2 entries

scrape scraped

Translations

15 translations across 9 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ψῆγμα noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Bulgarian

1 entries

стърготина noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Finnish

1 entries

kaape noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

French

1 entries

raclement noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Greek

3 entries

απόξεσμα noun (material removed when something has been scraped)
απόξυσμα noun (material removed when something has been scraped)
ξύσμα noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Hindi

1 entries

खुरचन noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Latin

2 entries

rāsus noun (action of scraping)
strigmentum noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Māori

2 entries

hākuku noun (material removed when something has been scraped)
kotakota noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Spanish

3 entries

monda noun (material removed when something has been scraped)
mondadura noun (material removed when something has been scraped)
peladura noun (material removed when something has been scraped)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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I'm managing scraping along on a small salary.

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He is scraping on the violin.

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We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.

Source: tatoeba (328257)

Mary is scraping her heels.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.