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SCRAPE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gather (money or other resources) together over time
Example:
they scratched a meager living
Synonyms:
come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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
