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scrabble

/skrab-uhl/US // ˈskræb əl //UK // (ˈskræbəl) //

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v.有主动词 verb
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    scrab·bled, scrab·bling.

    • : to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
    • : to grapple or struggle with or as if with the claws or hands.
    • : to scrawl; scribble.
v.无主动词 verb
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    scrab·bled, scrab·bling.

    • : to scratch or dig frantically with the hands; claw: scrabbling at a locked door to escape the flames.
    • : to jostle or struggle for possession of something; grab or collect something in a disorderly way; scramble.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a scratching or scraping, as with the claws or hands.
    • : a scrawled or scribbled writing.
    • : a disorderly struggle for possession of something; scramble: After the fumble, there was a scrabble for the football.

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Examples

  • I guess that’s actually one of the rules of Scrabble, not trail usage.

  • It does however fit on a Super Scrabble board, which is twice the size and played with twice the number of tiles.

  • Note: Unusual words that are playable in Scrabble appear in this article in boldface.

  • So just how much time have we spent engaged with the Scrabble-like word game?

  • The book came out 30 years ago, and the film was an even bigger flop than that after-school Scrabble club you tried to start.

  • Wake up, walk dog, play a little online Scrabble, start to work.

  • Down would go the chained hands to scrabble in the grass for it, and then the picking would go on again.

  • There used to be a very messy, rocky desert here, and we used to have to scrabble and scratch our way to the monument.

  • At this mention of him she reached forward and began to scrabble things hastily into the trunk.

  • I inclose with this the pages of feeble scribble-scrabble which the creature Sharpin calls a report.

  • I say it not in envy, but with the awe of one who has had to scrabble and who sees endless scrabbling ahead.