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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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 cancelled
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
Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Commissioners officially scrapped the flag-raising idea after weighing input from residents, instead opting Thursday for other ways to remember the many lives lost in the 2023 attack.
—Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Those poor scientists – their federal funding has been taken away, their research programs scrapped, and their rigorous scientific findings ignored in favor of one man’s irrational, uninformed opinion.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
The initiative had to be scrapped months later due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Trump scrapped the sit-down set for Thursday just a day after people familiar with the situation said that his meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would happen.
—Kevin Breuninger,erin Doherty, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
The planned early morning implosion marked the end of a structure built in the 1970s for a nuclear project that was later scrapped.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Plans for a Sphere in London have been scrapped, but the group plans to open one in UAE via a franchise model in the coming years.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Importantly, Hungary scrapped the earlier €500,000 direct residential property purchase route at the start of this year, meaning investors can no longer qualify by buying real estate outright.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
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Textiles have been one of the biggest beneficiaries of AGOA and, by some estimates, up to 300,000 jobs could be at risk if AGOA were scrapped.
—Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Commissioners officially scrapped the flag-raising idea after weighing input from residents, instead opting Thursday for other ways to remember the many lives lost in the 2023 attack.
—Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Those poor scientists – their federal funding has been taken away, their research programs scrapped, and their rigorous scientific findings ignored in favor of one man’s irrational, uninformed opinion.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
The initiative had to be scrapped months later due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Trump scrapped the sit-down set for Thursday just a day after people familiar with the situation said that his meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would happen.
—Kevin Breuninger,erin Doherty, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
The planned early morning implosion marked the end of a structure built in the 1970s for a nuclear project that was later scrapped.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Plans for a Sphere in London have been scrapped, but the group plans to open one in UAE via a franchise model in the coming years.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Importantly, Hungary scrapped the earlier €500,000 direct residential property purchase route at the start of this year, meaning investors can no longer qualify by buying real estate outright.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Scrapped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrapped. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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