SCRAPE Copy link • SCRAPE 1. v. To rub the surface of anything by an edge, scabere (from κάβω, to rub, to scratch): radere (to scrape with a tool, in order to remove any extraneous matter): fricare (to rub, in order to make smooth): abradere (to scrape off): deradere (to make a smooth surface by scraping): subradere (to scrape from below): circumradere (all around). To clean by rubbing [Vid: To CLEAN]. To act on the surface with a grating noise [Vid: To GRATE]. To collect by penurious diligence, corradere; e.g., some money; converrere (to sweep together, then to collect, bring together with a great deal of trouble; e.g., hereditates omnium, Cic., Off. 3, 19, extr.). To play badly (on the fiddle), *strepere fidibus; chordas misere radere (Bau.). To make a noise with one’s feet, (pedibus) strepitum edere; pedibus terram radere (of birds). PHR. To scrape acquaintance, insinuare se alicui or insinuare alicui; insinuare se in familiaritatem alicujus. 2. s. By circumlocution with the verbs in To SCRAPE. A perplexity, angustiae: to get anybody into a scrape, in angustias adducere: in angustum compellere. To get (one’s self) into a scrape, in angustias adduci; in angustum venire: to be in a scrape, in angustiis esse or haerere; angustius se habere. To get the money-lenders out of a scrape, ex obsidione foeneratores eximere (Cic., Fam., 5, 6, 5, Cortte). A bow, Vid.