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scrape off
verb as in top
verb as in wear
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When born, baby caecilians — legless amphibians that look like a mash-up of a snake and a worm — use their tiny hook-shaped teeth to scrape off their mother’s skin and feast.
The county has also distributed more than 100,000 fentanyl test strip kits, which allow drug users to scrape off a tiny bit of pill, powder or rock, mix it with water and use a simple test strip to determine if the drug is laced with potent, deadly fentanyl.
I practically lived at my babysitter's house then, so I used to go into her kitchen and grab a teaspoon, and angle it enough to scrape off this sugary top.
Scrape off as much as possible, using a razor blade held as flat as possible to the surface.
Once the stock is done, you can continue to make the soup immediately or refrigerate it overnight — or for up to three days — and, if you want a lighter broth, scrape off the fat that solidifies on top.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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