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Scoop Out

Definition: Scoop Out

Scoop Out

Verb

1. Hollow out with a scoop; "scoop out a melon".

2. Take out or up with or as if with a scoop.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Scoop Out

Synonyms: lift out (v), scoop (v), scoop up (v), take up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Scoop Out

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Concavity

Render concave; Adjective: depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Scoop Out

English words defined with "scoop out": Bouge. (references)

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Modern Translation: Scoop Out

Language Translations for "scoop out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

gërryej (be corroded, be eroded, cave, chew, corrode, dredge, erode, gouge, hollow out, honeycomb, rasp, scuff, tear, tear to pieces). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

копая (break ground, delve, dig, dredge, excavate, fossick, grub, hoe, mine, navvy, pickax, scoop, shovel), издълбавам (bore, chase, engrave, gouge, hollow out, incise, notch, quarry, scrape, scrape out). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(dig), (cruel, obstinate, to slash), (rip up, to cut open). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kovertaa (gouge, hollow). (various references)

   

German

  

herausschaufeln, herausschöpfen, graben (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, engrave, excavation, fosse, grub, gutter, hole, mine, moat, pit, pole, prospect, rift, spade, to burrow, to dig, to dig (dug, to sink, to trench, trench, water jump), aushöhlen (erode, gouge, gut, hollow out, to hollow out, undermine, weaken, wear away). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φτιαρίζω. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kimereget (to scoop, to scoop out, to scoop up), kimer (to bale out, to scoop, to scoop out, to scoop up), kilapátol (scoop, to scoop, to scoop out, to scoop up), kikanalaz (to scoop, to scoop out, to spoon out, to spoon up). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyendok (ladle out, ladle up, scoop up, spoon), mencentong (ladle out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

svuotare (empty, rifle, vent), scavare (cave, delve, dig, ditch, excavate, hollow, mine, pick, plough, plow). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

抉る (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out), 汲み取る (to pump out, to scoop out, to understand), "る (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out), 刳る (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くる (hunchback, rickets, to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to become, to bore, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to excavate, to get, to gouge, to grow, to hollow out, to reel, to scoop out, to set in, to wind), くみとる (to pump out, to scoop out, to understand), えぐる (to bore, to excavate, to gouge, to hollow out, to scoop out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oopscay outay

   

Spanish

  

cavar (delve, dig, dig up, grub, mole, pick, spade), achicar (bail, bale, diminish, dwarf, humble, lessen, minimize, pump out, reduce, scoop up, take in). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

oymak (bore, boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, clan, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge, gouge out, grave, hollow, hollow out, incise, recess, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, trace over, tribe), kepçe ile boşaltmak (ladle, scoop), içini oymak, çukur açmak (dig a hole, hollow, hollow out). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Scoop Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outscoop.

Words within the letters "c-o-o-o-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: copouts, octopus.

-2 letters: coopts, copout.

-3 letters: coops, coopt, coots, coups, pouts, scoop, scoot, scout, spout, stoop, stoup, topos.

-4 letters: coop, coos, coot, cops, cost, cots, coup, cups, cusp, cuts, oops, oots, opts, opus, oust, outs, poco, post, pots, pout, puts, scop, scot, scup, scut, soot, soup, spot, stop, tops, tups.

-5 letters: coo, cop, cos, cot.

 Words containing the letters "c-o-o-o-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outscoops.

 

+2 letters: outscooped.

 

+3 letters: outscooping, prolocutors.

 

+4 letters: coleopterous.

 

+5 letters: coproductions, fluoroscopist, photoproducts, polychotomous, postholocaust.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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