SCRAPPED Synonyms: 151 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb (1)

past tense of scrap

as in bickered

to express different opinions about something often angrily the young couple often scrapped about money and their very disparate spending habits

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scrapped

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verb (2)

past tense of scrap

as in discarded

to get rid of as useless or unwanted we've decided to scrap the second car

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as in canceled

to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) we scrapped our plans to go to Paris, and set out the next day for Prague

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Recent Examples of scrapped

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The race was supposed to be held every year for the next 10 years, but the 2003 event was scrapped after organizers failed to fix the noise problems and ran into other operational issues. — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 The move meant performances from Don Toliver, Tems, Sombr, and Clairo were scrapped, but new additions to the lineup included Kali Uchis, Blood Orange, Geese, and Fakemink. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026 In the town of McFarland, Wisconsin, an $18,000 contract for six Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) from Flock was scrapped after the loss of 24 county-level cameras from earlier in the year, Ars Technica reported. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026 The cloture motion will determine if the Clarity Act gets a Senate floor vote or is scrapped. — Cleve Mesidor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 One particularly stubborn bottleneck automatically sent recruits who wore glasses for screening for rare disqualifying eye conditions, a requirement officials eventually scrapped. — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 At Stanford, the Democrat scrapped plans to study biochemistry to pursue politics. — Ben Paviour august 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026 That project was scrapped in February 2025 due to creative differences and the rights have since reverted back to Maas. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026 The Shelton of 2025 who scrapped out wins by scrambling along the baseline and finding a way has evolved into a more assertive player. — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrapped

Verb

King bickered with fans on social media.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
But Tilly and Gershon playfully bickered onstage as the former remembered things slightly differently, with Tilly saying the problem had more to do with a shot of her hand on Gershon's crotch that was deemed too realistic.

— Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 8 June 2026

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According to the report the items were discarded, and the walk-in cooler could not be used until it was serviced and approved by Tarrant County Public Health.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Aug. 2026
In addition, the short-half-life isotopes tend to get discarded by the process, and there's also the need to keep the streams of pure plutonium from concentrating, or things could get very nasty.

— David Szondy August 22, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of discarded

Verb

The franchise was canceled after a 2006 Texas operation in which Rockwall County assistant district attorney Louis Conradt died by suicide as authorities and the show’s crew closed in on his home.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
The 2020 and 2021 editions were canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2025 festival was canceled after a day due to a storm.

— Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of canceled

Verb

But O’Donnell argued that decades-long goal was actually hurt at first by having fewer workers.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
In her opening statement, Goldberg argued that prosecutors had no evidence to support their theory that Banks had offered or paid a bounty for Quando Rondo’s killing.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of argued

Verb

The storm dumped more than a foot of rain over parts of the state, with the highest elevations getting more than 40 inches.

— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
The only other crime series out recently on Netflix are true-crime offerings, where a few of those are dumped out every week.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of dumped

Verb

With that said, Jonas Vingegaard’s crash at this year’s Tour shows how quickly races can change — while the two favorites at last year’s Giro d’Italia, Roglič and Juan Ayuso, both abandoned with injuries.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
In the present-day timeline, this reveal casts a large shadow over adult Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), who’s abandoned by husband Jeff (Warren Cole) and daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins).

— Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of abandoned

Verb

The suspect ditched his bike in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood, northeast of where Interstates 105 and 110 intersect, and ran off.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
The hit-and-run driver then ditched the BMW and appears to have gotten into another car to escape.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026