scrape

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To remove (an outer layer, for example) from a surface by forceful strokes of an edged or rough instrument: scraped the wallpaper off before painting the wall.
2. v. To abrade or smooth by rubbing with a sharp or rough instrument.
3. v. To rub (a surface) with considerable pressure, as with an edged instrument or a hard object.
4. v. To draw (a hard or abrasive object) forcefully over a surface: scraped my fingernails down the blackboard.
5. v. To injure the surface of by rubbing against something rough or sharp: scraped my knee on the sidewalk.
6. v. To amass or produce with difficulty: scrape together some cash.
7. v. To come into sliding, abrasive contact.
8. v. To rub or move with a harsh grating noise.
9. v. To give forth a harsh grating noise.
10. v. To economize or save money by paying attention to very small amounts; scrimp.
11. v. To succeed or manage with difficulty: scraped through by a narrow margin.
12. n. The act of scraping.
13. n. The sound of scraping.
14. n. An abrasion on the skin.
15. n. An embarrassing predicament.
16. n. A fight; a scuffle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To shave or abrade the surface of with a sharp or rough instrument, especially a broad instrument, or with something hard; scratch, rasp, or shave, as a surface, by the action of a sharp or rough instrument; grate harshly over.
2. To make clean or smooth by scratching, rasping, or planing with something sharp or hard.
3. To remove or take off by or as by scratching or rubbing; erase: with out, off, or the like.
4. To collect by careful effort; gather by small earnings or savings: with together or up, or the like: as, to scrape enough money together to buy a new watch.
5. Synonyms Scrape, Scratch, Chafe, Abrade, Erode. Scraping is done with a comparatively broad surface: as, to scrape the ground with a hoe; scratching is done with that which is somewhat sharp: as, to scratch the ground with a rake; chafing and abrading are done by pressure or friction: as, a chafed heel. Erode is chiefly a geological term, meaning to wear away by degrees as though by gnawing or biting out small amounts. Scraping generally removes or wears the surface; scratching makes lines upon the surface; chafing produces heat and finally soreness; abrading wears away the surface; eroding may cut deep holes. Only chafe may be freely figurative.
6. To scratch, or grub in the ground, as fowls.
7. To rub lightly or gratingly: as, the branches scraped against the windows.
8. To draw back the foot in making obeisance: as, to bow and scrape.
9. To play with a bow on a stringed instrument: a more or less derogatory use.
10. To save; economize; hoard penuriously.
11. n. The act or noise of scraping or rubbing, as with something that roughens or removes a surface; hence, the effect of scraping, rubbing, or scratching: as, a noisy scrape on a floor; the scrape of a pen.
12. n. A scraping or drawing back of the foot in making obeisance.
13. n. An embarrassing position, usually due to imprudence and thoughtlessness.
14. n. The concreted turpentine obtained by scraping it out from incisions in the trunks of Pinus australis.
15. n. A shave.
16. n. Same as scrap.
17. To scratch; draw sharply across something; “strike,” as a match.
18. To remove the scrape, or concreted turpentine, from the faces of turpentined trees.
19. In golf, to drag the club slowly along the ground in the act of putting.
20. n. A small dredge which removes material by scraping the top; a scraper.
21. n. A plow or cultivator shovel consisting of a straight horizontal blade of steel, in use placed obliquely on the stock; a scraper.

Wiktionary

1. v. To draw a sharp or angular object along (something) while exerting pressure.
2. v. To cause something to be in the state implied by the adverb by scraping.
3. v. To injure by scraping.
4. v. To extract data embedded in a screenshot or formatted medium (such as an HTML web page) by means of an automated program.
5. n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
6. n. A fight; especially a fist fight without weapons.
7. n. An awkward set of circumstances.
8. n. A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
9. n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To remove by rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
3. v. 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.
4. v. 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.
5. v. 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.
6. v. To occupy one's self with getting laboriously.
7. v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
8. v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
9. n. The act of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or a harsh sound.
10. n. A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
11. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. scratch repeatedly
2. v. bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
3. v. bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
4. v. cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
5. n. a harsh noise made by scraping
6. n. a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
7. n. an indication of damage
8. v. make by scraping
9. v. gather (money or other resources) together over time
10. n. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off