Synonyms of scraping

scraping 1 of 3

adjective

as in scratching

Related Words

• scratching
• grinding
• abrasive
• jarring
• discordant
• cacophonous
• guttural
• rough
• growling
• gravel
• rusty
• screeching
• strident
• raucous
• hoarse
• grating
• gravelly
• cracked
• coarse
• squawking
• scratchy
• rasping
• growly
• raspy
• cawing
• choked
• husky
• gruff
• strained
• throaty
• croaking
• croaky
• dissonant
• strangled
• unmusical
• inharmonious
• unmelodious

Dissimilar Words

• liquid
• golden
• gentle
• sweet
• soothing
• smooth
• mellow
• mellifluous
• tender
• soft
• gliding
• velvety
• silken
• musical
• satiny
• mellifluent
• melodic
• lyrical
• melodious
• lyric
• euphonious

scraping

2 of 3

noun

as in pinching

Related Words

• pinching
• tightness
• selfishness
• saving
• cheapness
• miserliness
• meanness
• economy
• conserving
• stinginess
• thrift
• economizing
• scrimping
• frugality
• parsimony
• skimping
• managing
• ungenerosity
• husbandry
• conservation
• closeness
• penuriousness
• providence
• husbanding
• cutting back

Dissimilar Words

• bounty
• generosity
• philanthropy
• liberality
• unselfishness
• largesse
• munificence
• charity
• openhandedness
• selflessness
• beneficence
• bountifulness
• kindness
• generousness
• kindliness
• bigheartedness
• openheartedness

scraping

3 of 3

verb

present participle of scrape

1

as in rubbing

to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surface

the rusty old gate scrapes against the pavement whenever anyone opens it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scratching
• rubbing
• grinding
• grating
• rasping
• groaning
• whining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sliding
• gliding
• skating

2

as in scuffing

to damage by rubbing against a sharp or rough surface

she scraped her knee when she fell down

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scratching
• scuffing
• grazing
• abrading
• bruising
• clawing
• barking
• skinning
• cutting
• lacerating
• chafing
• fretting
• galling
• contusing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• polishing
• softening
• smoothing
• waxing

3

as in gritting

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gritting
• scratching
• crunching
• grinding
• creaking
• gnashing
• grating
• groaning
• scrunching
• whining
• moaning
• clashing
• colliding
• jarring
• rasping
• jangling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scraping

Adjective

If Google can amend its complaint to argue that rights holders directly authorized Google to use its anti-scraping technology to prevent unauthorized access to content, then Google may be able to block a very limited amount of SerpApi’s scraping. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026

Recently, internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare likened the platform to North Korean hackers for bypassing anti-scraping protections on websites. — PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025

Noun

Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2026

Extreme mountain climbing has never looked anything but miserable from the distance of a screening room, and The Other Side delivers mightily on all that scraping, straining, gasping toil. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

That converts execution from brittle screen-scraping into a clean engineering problem. — Oleg Nesterov, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Votee gets its Cantonese data from online scraping, including content from Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), the city’s public broadcasting service. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

Jhin says doctors can remove them by shaving, scraping, freezing or cauterizing them. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 18 Aug. 2026

The move reflects how Hollywood has navigated the murkier elements of generative AI, a technology many in the industry are fascinated by yet worry undercuts their work through the unauthorized scraping of likenesses to train their models. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026

The rhythmic movement of my hands, the gentle scraping sounds of metal on metal, and the slow, satisfying growth of a misshapen rectangle between my fingers got me out of my head and grounded in the room around me. — Laura Bradley, HEALTH, 14 Aug. 2026

That makes these networks valuable for people trying to hide mass scraping, fake ad clicks, account attacks or other shady activity. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026

Verb

Cream on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes, scraping once or twice. — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

The Thunder were scraping the rotational barrel hard enough on Monday against the Phoenix Suns that rookie two-way Josh Dix played 10 straight minutes in the second half. — John Hollinger, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Beat with a mixer on low 30 seconds, scraping sides of bowl constantly. — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2026

Busch, a renowed music rights lawyer, previously sued Anthropic on behalf of Round Hill Music, an independent publisher, for $1 billion in August for allegedly illegally scraping hundreds of songs without permission. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026

Creators of these partisan sites further stand to benefit from the fact that artificial intelligence tools are constantly scraping content from news websites without paywalls. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

This innovation—the mass manufacture of ammonia, vastly more efficient than scraping guano off remote islands or grinding mountains of bison bones—removed the most critical nutrient bottleneck in global agriculture. — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Startup Hamlet has parsed tens of thousands of city council meetings by scraping local governments’ video recordings, tagging comments as friendly or hostile to a potential project. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Writers can upload a script and receive back a copy that is resistant to AI analysis, scraping and training. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026