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How to pronounce “scrape”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of scrape with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Rose Levy Beranbaum & Woody WolstonROSE LEVY BERANBAUM: We're big scrapers,
Definition summary: (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

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How to pronounce scrape

Rose Levy Beranbaum & Woody Wolston

ROSE LEVY BERANBAUM: We're big scrapers,

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Meaning

[Verb]
(ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
(transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
(transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
(transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
(transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
(computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
(intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
(ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
(intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
[Noun]
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
The sound or action of something being scraped.
Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
(slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
An awkward set of circumstances.
(British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
(military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
(UK, slang) A shave.
(uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Cheap butter.
(uncountable, UK, slang, obsolete) Butter laid on bread in the thinnest possible manner, as though laid on and scraped off again.
(heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.

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How to pronounce “scrape”

Pronunciation guide for scrape

How to pronounce scrape

Example Sentences

ROSE LEVY BERANBAUM: We're big scrapers,

And what we want to do is just scrape the seeds out.

you could use a spoon and scrape it.

if you didn't quite scrape the bottom of the container,

you can start to scrape the web and get insights just

I'm not having to scrape it down at all because the bowl is

You can scrape the beans off a lot easier

called a bench scraper.

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