scrape up

English

Verb

scrape up (third-person singular simple present scrapes up, present participle scraping up, simple past and past participle scraped up)

1. (transitive) to collect together by scraping

   scrape up all the dirt left in the bath.

2. (transitive) to gather together something needed (especially money)

   If I empty all my pockets, search around the house, and ask a few friends for a loan, I should be able to scrape up enough money to buy that new suit.

Synonyms

• (gather together something needed): scrape together

Translations

collect something needed

• Italian: racimolare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: наскреба́ть (ru) impf (naskrebátʹ), наскрести́ (ru) pf (naskrestí)

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• A-cuppers, super PAC