SCRAPE (OUT) Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

scrape (out)

verb

Definition of scrape (out)

as in to eke out

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New Jersey was pushed by the struggling Dallas team, who nearly eked out a DreamBreaker win before NJ advanced.

— Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 15 June 2026
Filimon stood at the front of the crowd and asked what would happen to those trying to eke out a living digging for gold by hand.

— Claire Wilmot & Gisa Tunbridge, The Dial, 12 June 2026

Definition of eke out

Verb

Oil prices, meanwhile, continued to climb as fighting in the Middle East keeps squeezing the global flow of crude.

— Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
The price for a barrel of Brent crude went above $109 on Monday morning as fighting in the Middle East keeps squeezing the global flow of oil.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of squeeze

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The average company is 109 years old, and more than half have been in business for over a century, surviving global conflicts and adapting through multiple industrial revolutions.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
The system would also need to survive punishing off-road conditions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of survive

Verb

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold’s 2026 season debut lasted just one drive before a hip injury knocked out the Super Bowl champion.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
Tiafoe came from behind to defeat fellow American Alex Michelsen 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6) in a match that lasted nearly five hours Tuesday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of last

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Astronomers have repeatedly pointed Webb toward the little red dots, wringing precious new information from these pixels of light.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
But Practical Magic 2 has little on its mind besides how to wring nostalgia from every gesture, needle drop, and line of dialogue.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of wring

Verb

The vanishing New York chronicled in the blogs of the mid-aughts has mostly vanished, NYU has colonized large swaths of downtown, and a populace struggling to afford the crushing price of housing has arisen in its wake.

— David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026
The score was tied in the sixth inning Thursday when the Houston Astros afforded starter Cristian Javier a rare chance.

— Matt Gelb, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of afford

Verb

Although the buildings have gotten taller over the years, the essential tool of the trade — a spud wrench that every ironworker carries on his belt to tighten the bolts that hold the beams together — has not changed in fifty years.

— Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Athens, the rest of the mainland, and many of the larger islands carry on much as usual.

— Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of carry on

Verb

Just last decade state officials attempted to wrest control of Charlotte’s airport from the city.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2026
The former indicates some potential fantasy upside if Raridon is eventually able to wrest the TE1 job away from Hunter Henry.

— Jakob Sanderson, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrest

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