SCRAPED Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in scrubbed

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scraped

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verb

past tense of scrape

as in scratched

to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surface the rusty old gate scrapes against the pavement whenever anyone opens it

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as in grazed

to damage by rubbing against a sharp or rough surface she scraped her knee when she fell down

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as in gritted

to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound she scraped her fingernails across the chalkboard to get everyone's attention

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Recent Examples of scraped

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If the white finish has been scraped away or the leather has visible scratches, cleaning alone won’t completely restore the area. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 9 July 2026 Among the billions of images in the dataset on which Stable Diffusion was trained were millions of photographs and other visual works scraped from the stock photography website Getty Images. — Zoey Forbes, The Dial, 7 July 2026 As the scribes’ pens scraped the parchment, the words became inscribed upon their soul. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026 When a user asked boat-botany why New Reddit isn’t scraped as often as Old Reddit, the Reddit employee pointed to a comment by another user. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026 Language models consume trillions of tokens scraped from the web. — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 Her bare and scraped-up leg hung out from mid-thigh. — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026 The 56-year-old year old from Northern California scraped more than 100 of his mom’s TikToks to create an AI clone of his mom’s voice, with the help of ElevenLabs, a company that specializes in AI voice generation. — Ella Chakarian, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2026 There were some additional cancer cells in tissue near the tumor that needed to be scraped out. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 28 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scraped

Adjective

Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.

— Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025

Definition of scoured

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Bubic made two rehab starts in Triple-A Omaha, didn’t feel right after the second one (on June 27) and was scratched from his next start.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
The Shawano-Menominee Counties Health Department advised anyone bitten or scratched by a bat or other wild animal to promptly clean the wound with soap and water, then contact a physician or go to the emergency room.

— Kelli Arseneau, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of scratched

Adjective

Double-coated and curly breeds take longer and use more product.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
Farage will hope the by-election will return him to parliament all but unopposed, his mandate renewed and his image as a man of the people capable of taking on the system, more Teflon-coated than ever.

— Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Definition of coated

Adjective

For instance, in 2018, Ristroph and colleagues fine-tuned the recipe for the perfect bubble based on experiments with soapy thin films.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Pick up the trap in the morning, discard the earwigs in a trash can, or shake them into a bucket of soapy water to kill them.

— Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2026