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SCRAPE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrape up mean? 

SCRAPE UP (verb)
  The verb SCRAPE UP has 1 sense:

1. gather (money or other resources) together over timeplay

  Familiarity information: SCRAPE UP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCRAPE UP (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather (money or other resources) together over time

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch

Context example:

they scratched a meager living

Hypernyms (to "scrape up" is one way to...):

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scrape up"):

nickel-and-dime (accumulate gradually)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


So, by little and little, and not living high, I managed to scrape up the hundred pounds at last, said Traddles; and thank Heaven that's paid—though it was—though it certainly was, said Traddles, wincing again as if he had had another tooth out, a pull.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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