SCRAMBLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrambled mean? 

• SCRAMBLED (adjective)
  The adjective SCRAMBLED has 1 sense:

1. thrown together in a disorderly fashion

  Familiarity information: SCRAMBLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRAMBLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thrown together in a disorderly fashion

Context example:

a scrambled plan of action

Similar:

disorganised; disorganized (lacking order or methodical arrangement or function)

 Context examples 

I scrambled down on to the path.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found myself shaking with nervous excitement as I scrambled forward and lay down beside him, looking out through the bushes at a clearing which stretched before us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Face photographs in which the features had been scrambled were not matched with green at all.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Round after round he scrambled his way in, slap-bang, right and left, every hit tremendously sent home.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I scrambled forward and looked over.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And she immediately scrambled across the fence, and walked away, not attending to Fanny's last question of whether she had seen anything of Miss Crawford and Edmund.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then the dog snapped it up, and scrambled away with it into a corner, where he soon ate it all up.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Tackles were made fast and lines flung to the men, who scrambled aboard like monkeys.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

While he yelped and ki-yi'd and scrambled backward, he saw the mother- weasel leap upon her young one and disappear with it into the neighbouring thicket.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Yes, out it came, and away ran Polly, frightened to death, and scrambled up on Aunt's chair, calling out, 'Catch her! Catch her! Catch her!' as I chased the spider.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)