Base verb
Phrasal verbs with scrape
The verb scrape combines with 3 particles to form everyday phrasal verbs. Each particle steers the meaning in its own direction — here they are with clear definitions and examples, so you can see the whole family at once.
3 phrasal verbs · 3 meanings
scrape by
1 sense- Manage to live with great difficulty on minimal resources
scrape off
1 sense- Remove by scraping with an edge
scrape through
1 sense- Just barely succeed at an exam or task
Practice the scrape family in Sink In
Sink In drills every sense of scrape with spaced repetition — recognition, particle cloze, and meaning recall — so the whole family sticks instead of blurring together.