Clues for the word "SCRAPE"
We've had 138 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 300 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 18, 2026.
Definition of scrape
- v. t. - To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.
- v. t. - To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
- v. t. - To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together.
- v. t. - To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a speaker, by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; -- usually with down.
- v. i. - To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
- v. i. - To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich.
- v. i. - To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
- v. i. - To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- n. - The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor; a scrape of a pen.
- n. - A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
- n. - A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.
Referring Clues
- Minor accident result
- Predicament
- Spot for a Band-Aid
- Scuffle
- Jam
- Skin
- Tough spot
- Fix
- Row
- Fix ... or damage
- Abrasion
- ___ up (gather with difficulty)
- Embarrassing situation
- Jam or pickle
- Skateboarding mishap
- Tight spot
- Remove, as paint
- Abrade
- Minor injury
- Abrasive injury
- Minor accident
- Bottom-of-the-barrel action
- Spot for gauze
- Abraded area
- Shrill sound
- Pickle
- Kid's frequent knee injury
- Minor knee injury
- Tricky situation
- Use a ulu
- Knee wound
- Clear of snow, as a windshield
- Close shave
- Use steel wool on
- Flesh wound
- Pickle or jam
- Scratch
- Difficult situation
- Close call
- Skin abrasion
- Altercation
- Knee abrasion
- Knee injury
- Rasp
- Spot for a bandage
- ___ one's knee
- Discard English pickle
- Fight with energy in awkward situation
- Tricky situation - graze
- Embarrassing predicament
- Capers used to make pickle
- Treat the new potatoes to a little butter?
- Possible euphemism for that is a serious crime
- Jam, perhaps, but not much butter
- With only a tiny bit of English, manage to get by
- Graze - predicament
- Silly capers causing minor damage
- Little bit of butter and jam
- Abrade - predicament
- Jam, yes; but not much butter
- Abrasive activity can mean trouble
- Abrade - economise
- Awkward predicament
- Clean fight with oriental
- Graze - awkward predicament
- Tight corner to fight with energy
- A close shave?
- Rake - predicament
- Drop a note when in difficulty
- Grate pickle
- Take the surface off
- Predicament - graze
- Where academics relax with copy of "The Predicament"
- Graze
- Fight to have last of the jam
- Chopped capers in pickle
- Jam - thinly applied?
- Trouble? Economise
- Frivolous capers could lead to an awkward predicament
- Rake's predicament
- Wild capers may get you into one
- Fix bark
- Casper resolved predicament
- Get rid of drug in a tight spot
- Take off an old coat
- Skirmish
- Skateboarding injury
- Scuff (shoes)
- Thinly spread butter and jam
- Predicament arising from drunken capers
- Fix grate
- Signal Corps getting criticism for brigade's ultimate predicament
- Fool accepting credit note has trouble
- Get rid of earth from a graze
- Drunken capers caused tricky situation
- Bark and fight over last piece of bone
- Waste energy making jam
- Bark and fight close to doghouse
- Fragment ending in fire grate
- Predicament? Economise
- Boo-boo
- In trouble from scratch
- Knee boo-boo
- Sebadoh "Bubble and ___"
- In predicament, fight with energy
- Treat the new potatoes with jam?
- Naughty capers can get you into one
- Minor altercation
- Fight to the end, with only superficial damage
- Injury resulting from fight with sweetheart
- Having trouble from scratch
- Try hard to clean off a spot
- Trouble from scratch
- A jam that can blemish a car
- Rub harshly
- Silly capers can get you in a jam
- Scuff
- Means trouble, though the damage is slight
- Remove, as ice from a windshield
- Not much butter or jam
- ___ the bottom of the barrel
- What a bandage may cover
- Butter or jam
- Predicament due to naughty capers
- Treat the new potatoes to a little butter?
- ___ by (barely make it)
- Making jam from scratch
- Barely manage, with "by"
- Extract data from
- Jam, maybe, but not much butter
- Trouble due to a minor collision?
- Jam, maybe, but very little butter
- Abrasion a tot may call an "owie"
- Tough situation
- Nails-on-a-chalkboard sound
- Foolish capers can get you into one
- The difficulty having so little butter
- Undisciplined capers can lead to damage
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - August 11, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - July 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 31, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 27, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 07, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 26, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 11, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 30, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 01, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 05, 2025
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- Mirror Daily - July 14, 2025
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