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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 time
Familiarity information: SCRAPE UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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