Scrabble

Word SCRABBLE
Character 8
Hyphenation scrab ble
Pronunciations /ˈskɹæbəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Scrabble"

What do we mean by scrabble?

To scrape or grope about frenetically with the hands or paws. intransitive verb

To move or climb with scrambling, disorderly haste. intransitive verb

To struggle or work hard in a disorderly or desperate fashion. intransitive verb

To write hastily or make disordered markings; scribble. intransitive verb

To make or obtain by frenetic or desperate action. intransitive verb

To scrape or scratch (a surface). intransitive verb

To move or arrange hastily with the hands. intransitive verb

To scribble or write down hastily. intransitive verb

The act or an instance of scrabbling. noun

A scribble; a doodle. noun

A moving on the hands and knees; a scramble. noun

To scrape, scratch, or paw with the hands; move along on the hands and knees; crawl; scramble: as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.

To scramble or struggle to catch something.

To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; scrawl; scribble.

To scrape or gather hastily: with up, together, or the like.

To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble. intransitive verb

To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. intransitive verb

To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble. transitive verb

The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble. noun

A scramble.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Scrabble

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The word "scrabble" in example sentences

But have you ever been able to share your love for a fellow word nerd in scrabble talk? ❋ Unknown (2009)

No wait it's scrabble rules i've won the states with the most states that have more value in scrabble rules 'Idiots. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A game of scrabble is underway, and there is much laughter and good feeling here in the relative quiet and isolation of the Jakes salt-water pool area. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Scrabble for the iPad features all the joy and wonder of the classic word scrabble game, with the ability to play alone or with friends via Facebook or the new Party Play mode. ❋ Stephen Totilo (2010)

In fact, the scrabble is the sound of parents who trusted the system's '' we give your child all the education it needs '', then realised too late half the kids in the class had been on seven hours 'coaching a week since kindy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It might also have to do with having been the underdog for so long so that women kind of scrabble in these different jobs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sit around a lot playing computer games such as scrabble or casino games while thinking about what constructive things you should be doing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A madman would be more likely to hammer than to "scrabble" on the great double-leaved gate. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

They did the impossible again, when they assembled a rag-tag scrabble of an army under an inexperienced commanding general and proceeded to defeat the world’s greatest military power of the time in a long and arduous struggle against guns, weather, poverty and demoralization, for the prize of freedom and the opportunity to start anew. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He says that he doesn't even know if he can spell 'scrabble'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Specific searches on "scrabble" are up nearly 40%, and interest in "online crosswords" has nearly tripled in the District of Columbia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We do not eat out nearly as much and we have been doing more things at home with our family like watching all those movies we have accumulated over the years and some new ones, also we enjoy more game playing such as scrabble, monopoly, get the picture and many more board games … ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Kate had smothered it and buried it under her false ideas of womanhood; but it is there, and Katharine might so easily make a woman to be proud of, with her warm, loving nature, if only she could be kept out of the 'scrabble' for a few years longer. ❋ Anna Chapin Ray (1905)

Those who prefer cerebral competition may be surprised to discover that scrabble is also a *sker- word, from a medieval Dutch verb for “scraping,” one of many Indo-European verbs to do with actions of cutting or of removing and reshaping surfaces. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

When those kinds of thoughts scrabble into my aging brain as I hold some magical new device in my vein-laced hands, I will bite down and swallow my confusion and anger. ❋ Daniel H. Wilson (2011)

Rabinowitz: Look, think of all the people you know who are not rich by any means, who have managed to scrabble together a million dollars in equity, and they hear this kind of thinking. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For a couple months a year, I put out a scrabble board for open community play. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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