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scrape

verb as in scratch, remove outer layer

verb as in be very frugal

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Somehow, he was able to hold himself and his right foot aloft long enough for his left foot to scrape inside the end zone, which is all that’s needed in the college game.

Garfinkel said the club has had “less than a handful” of crashes, and most of them scraped up the car more than anyone inside it.

The cattle shortage has led companies to try to cut costs and scrape every morsel of meat off each cattle carcass.

Between recurrent bouts of plague and the even more dangerous shifts in court politics, the place was often just scraping by.

Faster and faster she went, scraping and gliding and spinning out of control.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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