Please don't scuff your shoes on the recently mopped floor.
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Scuff
/skʌf/
Synonyms for "scuff" (223 found)
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Closest matches (45)
Strong matches (67)
Related words (111)
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Adjective(1 words)
quick scrape
Noun(18 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
More specific
11 entriesCollocations
11 entriesfloor scuffscuff damagescuff markscuff marksscuff padscuff resistancescuff testscuffed finishscuffing wearshoe scuffsurface scuff
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriesTranslations
7 translations across 2 languages.
Czech
3 entries- odřít verb (to scrape the surface)
- ošoupat verb (to scrape the surface)
- podřít verb (to scrape the surface)
Hungarian
4 entries- horzsol verb (to scrape the surface)
- karcol verb (to scrape the surface)
- megsért verb (to scrape the surface)
- súrol verb (to scrape the surface)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Maple syrup mixed with baby spit-up and shoe scuff?
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The lawns and gardens had been scuffed away.
Source: wiktionary
Wallace threw himself at it to connect with a flying header. He looked a certain scorer but his effort scuffed the inside of Fraser Forster’s post.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.