verb
gather (money or other resources) together over time (Freq. 1)
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She had scraped together enough money for college
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they scratched a meager living
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• Hyponyms: ↑nickel-and-dime
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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ˌscrape to ˈgether ˌscrape ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they scrape together he/she/it scrapes together present participle scraping together past tense scraped together past participle scraped together] phrasal verb
to succeed in getting enough of something, especially money, by making a lot of effort
They have trouble even scraping together their rent.
Thesaurus: to collect an amount of somethingsynonym
Main entry: scrape
Useful english dictionary. 2012.