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Collocations for scrape - verb

ADVERB

carefully, gently
She carefully scraped away the top layer of paint.
away, back, off
I scraped the dirt off.

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PREPOSITION

against
He scraped the car against the garage wall.
along
Patrick lifted the gate to prevent it from scraping along the ground.
on
I scraped my elbow on the wall as I went past.
with
I scraped the carrots with a knife.

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PHRASES

scrape sth clean
The wood had been scraped clean.

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Scrape is used with these nouns as the subject:
chair, fingernail, nail

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Scrape is used with these nouns as the object:
dirt, knee, knuckle, living, pass, windscreen

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