1.b> (), / ; to scrape a carrot ; scrape all the mud off your boots before you come in ; the kids had scraped their plates clean / ;
2.b> (), ; he fell over and scraped his knee ; she scraped the car against the wall ;
3.b> (; ), ; ; to scrape a pen over paper ; stop scraping your feet along the flour ; we could hear her scraping away at the violin , ;
4.b> 1) () / ( ..i>); to scrape a win ; the government scraped home by three votes ; I just scraped a pass in the maths exam ;
2) (); they scraped a living ;
5.b> : to scrape one's hair back i> / ;
to scrape by (on smth.)b> (); tob> scrape through (smth.)b> () (); I scraped through my exams ; to scrape smth. together / up /b> () / (.i> i>).
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