Scrape

Definition: Scrape

Scrape

Noun

1. A harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her".

2. An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.

3. A deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him".

4. An indication of damage.

Verb

1. Scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair".

2. Make by scraping; "They scraped a letter into the stone".

3. Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of.

4. Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner.

5. Gather together over time; as of money or other resources; "She had scraped together enough money for college".

6. Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell".

7. Strike against an object, as of one's toe or foot.

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

Date "scrape" was first used: sometime around 1225. (references)

Literature

Metallurgy

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Scrape

Acquisition

Find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest.

Assemblage

Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Contraction

Abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

Courtesy

Uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.

Obeisance; (reverence); bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow, kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection; (worship); obsequiousness; capping, shaking hands; Verb: grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur, pledge; love token; (endearment); kiss, buss, salute.

Difficulty

Under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape; Noun: in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood.

Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position.

Get into a scrape; Noun: bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn; (uncertain); perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick fast; come to a stand, come to a standstill, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears, hold the tiger by the tail.

Engraving

Verb: engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph; Noun: print.

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk.

Friction

Verb: rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind. (reduce to powder).

Friendship

Verb: be friendly; Adjective:, be friends; be acquainted with; Adjective: know; have the ear of; keep company with;(sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will; (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend; (aid); introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; Adjective: make friends; with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.

Pulverulence

Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate .

Crosswords: Scrape

Now - everybody throw down your guns or I scrape off all her make up (Tank Girl; writing credit: Alan Martin; Jamie Hewlett)

You cry when you scrape your knee, you cry when we're out of chocolate milk, you cry when you're doing long division and you have a remainder left over (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Scrape off your hair (Planet of the Apes; writing credit: Pierre Boulle; Michael Wilson)

And how's he supposed to scrape his own back (I, Claudius; writing credit: Robert Graves; Jack Pulman)

The kid's dead Arnie, they had to scrape his legs up with a shovel (Christine; writing credit: Stephen King; Bill Phillips)

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread (If It Makes You Happy; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Or scrape your fingernails across the board (Achy Breaky Song; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

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

Books

• How to scrape skies; the United States explored, rediscovered and explained (reference)

• Scrape Hunting from A to Z (Whitetail Secrets Ser. : No. 3) (reference)

• Scrape Off the Black (reference)

• The Great Texas Scare: A Story of the Runaway Scrape (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bubble & Scrape (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Protrack Scrape And Dry Mat, 3 x 4, Charcoal (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Starfish attacking young oysters. Special equipment is used to dredge or scrape starfish off oyster beds in order to reduce the damage to the oysters. F&W 12,001. Credit: Fisheries.

Broyozoa, oysters, sponges on interior roof of concrete pipe. Community is characteristic of mature interior reef surface. You can see scrape marks from grazing fish on dark and light green colonies of bryozoa. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

I am glad, I am out of the scrape!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Logs in the boom at Long Pond. Logs scrape each other so that most of them are barked clean by the time they reach the mill at Berlin. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And giving his foot a long scrape behind him, which is the most respectful of all possible bows, he went away

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Health

Curve the floss around each tooth and gently scrape from below the gum to the top of the tooth several times. (references)

It can be as simple as the reaction to a cut or scrape, when the body moves quickly to heal the wound and counteract any bacteria or foreign matter. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "scrape": bow and scrape ♦ bread and scrape ♦ get smb. into trouble scrape ♦ pinch and scrape ♦ scrape a living ♦ scrape against ♦ scrape against the wall ♦ scrape along ♦ scrape along together ♦ scrape along with ♦ scrape away ♦ scrape bare ♦ scrape by ♦ scrape clean ♦ scrape clear of prison ♦ scrape down ♦ scrape in ♦ scrape off ♦ scrape one's chin ♦ scrape one's feet ♦ scrape one's plate ♦ scrape one's plate clean ♦ scrape out ♦ scrape out a tune on the violin ♦ scrape the barrel ♦ scrape through ♦ scrape together ♦ scrape trough an exam ♦ scrape trough the doorway ♦ scrape up ♦ To scrape acquaintance. Additional references.

Beginning with "scrape": scrape-marks, scrape-penny, scrape-tapered.

Albanian

zdërvitje, vështirësi (difficulty, embarrassment, hardness, hitch, hurdle, knot, quandary, rub), telash (difficulty, embarrassment, hassle, load, mess, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, stew, trouble, worry), kruajtje, hall (disappointment, pinch, problem, trouble), grij (canker, chew, cut into pieces, grate, grind, hash, mince, scour, shred), gërvishtje (laceration, scrabble, scratch, scratching), gërricje (burst, fracture, gap, rupture, scratch, split), e çjerrë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرك (chafe, rub, rubbing, scour, scrub, stone), ‏كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), ‏كشط (abrade, abrasion, graze, grazing, robbing, rub off, scraping, scratch of, shave), ‏نظف الصحن, ‏نظف الخضر, ‏قشر (bark, exfoliate, hull, husk, pare, peel, rind, scale, shave, shell, shuck, skin, strip), ‏وفر بصعوبة, ‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, sink), ‏حك (abrade, abrasion, friction, itch, paw, polish, rasp, rub, sand, scrabble, scraping, scrubbing), ‏صرف (absolute, chuck, count, creak, dismiss, dismissal, double, downright, earn, exchange, groan, pay, pay away, pure, put out, receive, resolve, shake, shrift, sterling, turn away, unadulterated, unalloyed, vent, withdraw), ‏خدش (abrasion, claw, graze, mark, rake, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratch off), ‏جمع بشق الأنفس, ‏إنحناءة إحترام (beck, curtsey), ‏شق طريقه بصعوبة (slog), ‏بثر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ожулвам (abrade, gall, rase, raw, raze, rub sore, sting), драсване, драскотина (graze, scar, score, scotch, scratch, streak), издълбавам (bore, chase, engrave, gouge, hollow out, incise, notch, quarry, scoop out, scrape out), изстъргвам (abrade, rase, rasp, raze, scrape away), икономисвам (economize, observe economy, save, scant, skimp), едва минавам, живея икономично, затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), неприятност (annoyance, cross, headache, mischief, nuisance, packet, plague, rub, shame, spot, trouble, vexation), докосвам се, ожулено място (abrasion, chafe, graze, raw), стъргане (rasp), остъргано място, остъргвам (scrape away, scrape off, scrape out, skive), кавга (altercation, broil, disagreement, doing, dustup, hassle, jangle, odds, quarrel, row, ruffle, rumpus, run in, set to, shindig, shindy, strife, warm words, wrangle), тънък пласт масло, цикля, реверанс (curtsey, curtsy, obeisance, reverence), сбиване (affray, brush, fray, mix in, muss, row, scrap, scuffle, set to, shindig, shindy, warm words), свада (fray, turnup), скърцам (creak, grate, groan, scratch, screak, squeak), стържа (grate, grind, rasp), одрасквам (clapperclaw, graze, rake, scratch, scuff). (various references)

Chinese 

刮掉 , 刮 (scraped, scraping, shaved, shaven, shaving). (various references)

Czech

skřípaní, poškrábat (Mark, scar, score, scratch), otřít se (brush), odřenina (abrasion, raw), odřít (abrade, chafe, chip, excoriate, flay, lacerate, strip), malér, škrábat (be itchy, claw, scribble), škrábanec (scratch). (various references)

Danish

skrabe (scratch). (various references)

Dutch

schrapen (scratch), afkrabben (scrape off, scratch off). (various references)

Esperanto

skrapi (scratch), degrati (scrape off, scratch off). (various references)

Faeroese

skava (scratch), klóra (scratch). (various references)

Farsi 

پنجول زدن , پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Sublimate, Ventilate, Wash, Winnow, Wipe), گیر (Embroglio, Fix, Gripe, Hitch, Impasse, Impediment, Jamming, Obstacle, Snag, Trap), گرفتاری (Ado, Assurance, Captivity, Constraint, Encumbrance, Hitch, Involvement, Mire, Plight, Snarl), تراشیدن (Carve, Erase, Excoriate, Expunge, Face, Grain, Grave, Pare, Rase, Raze, Shave, Trim, Whittle), زدودن (Clean, Efface, Obliterate, Purge, Remove, Scour, Shuck, Swab, Sweep, Wipe), خاراندن , خراشیدن (Chafe, Erase, Glance, Graze, Rase, Scrub), خراش (Abrasion, Attrition, Graze, Irritation, Rift, Scotch, Scuff), اثرخراش , باناخن وجنگال خراشیدن , باکهنه یاچیزی ساءیدن یاپاک کردن . (various references)

Finnish

raapia (claw, scratch), kaapia (grate, paw, rasp). (various references)

French

gratter (scrabble, scrabble about, scratch), racler (scrape off, scrapers). (various references)

German

schaben (chop finely, scrapers, scratch, shave), kratzen (bother, card, claw, grate, prickle, rasp, rasping, scrabble, scratch, scratchiness, scratching, tease, to scratch). (various references)

Greek 

ξύνω (grate, rub off, scratch, sharpen), αποξέω. (various references)

Hebrew 

למלול (crush, rub), לשיף (file, rasp), לשוף (file, graze, plaster, polish, rub), לשרוט (graze, scarify, scotch, scratch, skin, slash), לקרצף (curry, pare, rasp, wisp), ל�"קצות (allocate, assign, chip), ל�'רו�" (scrabble, scratch), ל�'ר�" (abrade, grate, itch, scrabble, scratch), לסרוט (graze, scarify, scratch, slash). (various references)

Hungarian

vakarás (grooming, rasping, scraping, scratch), kaparás (rasping, scraping), slamasztika, nyekergetés (fiddling), nyekergés, leheletnyi vajréteg, kellemetlenség (annoyance, awkwardness, botheration, chagrin, cross, discomfiture, discomfort, encumbrance, fix, illness, nastiness, nuisance, pain, predicament, unpleasantness), kellemetlen helyzet (discomfort, picnic, pits, predicament), karcolás (abrasion, chafing, nick, score, scoring, scratch). (various references)

Indonesian

mengorek-ngorek (get something by scraping), mengikis (erosive), mengeruk (dredge, stick one's hand into), gesek (rub). (various references)

Italian

raschiare (abrade, Gride, rake, rasp, scour, scrapers, scratch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

削り取る (to scrape off, to shave off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さする (to be about to reach, to be equal to, to graze, to grind, to pat, to polish, to rub off, to scrape, to stroke), さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, paling, pare, plan, plane, policy, reduce, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), せっしょくじ�" (a scrape, minor collision), かきおとす (to forget to write, to leave out, to scrape off), かきあつめる (to collect, to gather up, to scrape up together), かき� す (to begin to write, to extract, to scrape out, to write out), �"すりおとす (to rub off, to scrape off), よせあつめる (to collect, to gather, to put together, to scrape together), けずりおとす (to plane off, to scrape off), けずりとる (to scrape off, to shave off), けずる (to cross out, to curtail, to erase, to pare, to plane, to reduce, to remove, to scrape off, to sharpen, to shave, to whittle). (various references)

Korean 

부스러기. (various references)

Manx

scryssey (cancel, cancellation; growl, eliminate, elimination, erase, forage, grin, pare down, rub out, scrap, scrape away, scraping, scratch, shave, sneer, strike out, wipe out, write off), screebey (abrade, abrasion, chafe, claw, dress, friction, grate, graze, itch, rasp, scrape along, scraping, scratch, scrawl, scuffle, stridulate, striking), screeb (abrasion, scolding, score, scratch), scrabbey (scraping), creoiys (bitterness of frost, neatness; predicament, rigour of the law, severity, stoniness). (various references)

Pig Latin

apescray.(various references)

Portuguese

raspar (abrade, bark, blot, bream, delete, erase, fray, grate, rasp, rub, scrabble, scrape off, scratch, scuff, shave, skive, strike out), arranhar (clapperclaw, claw, dodder, gall, graze, rase, raze, scrabble, scratch, splutter, sputter, strum, thrum, twang). (various references)

Romanian

strat subţire de unt, strâmtoare (awkwardness, bottle-neck, clutch, constraint, extremity, fix, gorge, gullet, gut, jam, loss, narrow, narrows, necessity, sound, stew, Strait, trouble, unpleasant, want), scârţâit (creak, creaky, crunch, rasping, scraping, scratch, screak, squeak, squeaky), scârţâi (creak, crunch, groan, jar, rasp, scratch, screak, squeak), racla, belea (adversity, affliction, bother, embarrassment, jam, mess, mishap, nuisance, pest, tribulation, trouble), bucluc (adversity, affliction, bother, calamity, coil, cross, disgrace, embarrassment, jam, quagmire, tribulation, trouble, upset), dandana (hubbub, pickle, racket, shindy), daraverã (affair, business), economisi (administer, economize, put in the box, save, supervise), frecare (abrasion, contusion, friction, rub, rubbing), hârşâi (grate, scratch), nivela (equalize, flatten, level, level away, smooth), râcâi (grate, scratch), încurcãturã (abashment, confusion, difficulty, encumbrance, entanglement, fix, hash, involution, involvement, loss, lost, mess, mire, mishmash, morass, perplexity, pretty kettle of fish, puzzle, stew, tangle, trouble, upset), rãzuire (abrasion, rasping, scraping, scratch), zgârieturã (brush, gall, score, scratch), rade (contuse, efface, erase, grate, obliterate, pare, rasp, raze, shave), târşâi (shuffle), târşâiturã (scraping), tãrãşenie (story, thing), tevaturã (disturbance, shindy, trouble), zgâria (bruise, claw, gall, raw, score, scratch, scrawl), rãzui (abrade, erase, grate, grind, rasp, raze, regrate, scratch). (various references)

Russian 

скоблить (rasp). (various references)

Scottish

sgròb (scratch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

škripac (fix, hole, jam, pinch, strait, straits). (various references)

Spanish

legrar, arañazo (score, scratch), arrastrar (blow away, creep, drag, draw, grovel, haul, haulage, heave, lay, pull, pull along, schlep, scuff, tow, trail, trundle, tug, wash down), chirriar (chirp, chirrup, creak, jar, scream, screech, squeak), chirrido (chirp, chirrup, creak, scraping, scratch, screak, squeak), decapar, economizar (be miserly, economize, husband, nickel and dime, pinch, retrench, skimp, spare), escariar (ream), estregar (rub, scrub), arañar (claw, claw at, scratch, scuff), lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, fuss, game, hash, hassle, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss, wad), rozar contra (brush up against, catch, nibble, scuff), limpiar (black, char, clean, clean down, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, debug, delete, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, purge, rub up, scavenge, scour, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), rallar (grate), rascar (claw, saw, scratch, scratch oneself), rasgar (claw, jag, rent, rip, slash, tear), rasguño (scratch), raspado (curettage, rasping, scraping), raspadura (abrasion, erasure), raspar (abrades, erase, graze, rasp, rub out), reverencia obsequiosa, hacer chirriar. (various references)

Swedish

skrapning (dilatation and curettage), skrapa (bark, chafe, lecture, scoop, scrabble, scraper, scratch, shave, skin, squeegee). (various references)

Thai

สถานการ�"์ที่ลำบาก, การขู�", อ�"ออม (husband), รอยถลอก, ขู�" (rub), ขั�"สี. (various references)

Turkish

sürtme sesi, sürtme (friction, frictional, rub, rubbing), sürtünmek (brush, chafe, jostle, rub), sıyrık (abrasion, flesh wound, gall, graze, rawness, scar, scratch), sıyırmak (abrade, bark, brush, crease, glance off, graze, hitch, scar, shave, skim, skin, slip, slip off), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), kazımak (delete, erase, grave, incise, inscribe, rub, rub out, scratch, scratch along, scratch out, stamp, strip), çizik (dint, scar, score, scratch), gıcırdatarak çekmek, gıcırdatmak (chatter, gnash, grate, grind, grit, jar, screech), gıcırtı yapmak, gırç, garç, çıkmaz (cleft stick, crunch, culde-sac, dead, dead end, deadlock, den, dilemma, extreme, fix, impasse, inerasable, predicament, quag, quagmire, quicksand, stalemate, toughie), kazıma sesi, zor durum (cleft stick, crunch, den, foul, grievousness, hole, impasse, lurch, nice pickle, pickle, push, sad pickle, sorry pickle, spot, tight corner, toughie), kazıyarak temizlemek (scale), kazıma (erasion, scarification, scraping, scratching). (various references)

Ukrainian

скребіння, скребти (rasp), скрип (creak, gride, screak, squeak), протискуватися (corkscrew, elbow, squash), подряпина (chalk, graze, notch, scratch), дряпати (claw, scrabble, scratch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nạo (scraping), sự cạo tiếng nạo (scraping), tiếng sột soạt tình trạng khó khăn, tiếng cạo kèn kẹt. (various references)

Welsh

ysgrafellu (curry), crafu (itch, scratch). (various references)

arado, deradebat, destrictio, destrictis, eradamus, eradat, eraserit, radant, radat, radatis, radent, radentem, radet, radetur, radi, rasa, rasi, rasit, rasitque, rasum, rasurae. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "scrape": scraped, scraper, scrapers, scrapes. (additional references)

Words containing "scrape": skyscraper, skyscrapers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scrape" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scape, Scappa, scappe, Scarabee, scarep, scarpa, scarpe, sceap, schape, Schraagen, scorate, scorpae, Scraben, scrabo, Scrace, scrade, scrapey, scrapi, scrapie, scrapmen, scrapp, scrappet, scrapy, scrare, Scrase, scrate, scrawp, screep, screp, Scroope, scrope, scrupe, scrupge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: capers, crapes, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, secpar, spacer.

-1 letter: acres, apers, apres, asper, caper, capes, cares, carps, carse, crape, craps, escar, pacer, paces, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, races, rapes, reaps, recap, scape, scare, scarp, scrap, serac, space, spare, spear.

-2 letters: aces, acre, aper, apes, apse, arcs, ares, arse, cape, caps, care, carp, cars, case, ceps, crap, ears, eras, pace, pacs.

+1 letter: apercus, campers, cappers, carpels, carpers, carpets, clasper, eparchs, escaper, escarps, packers, parcels, parches, parsecs, placers, prances, preacts, precast, reclasp, redcaps, repacks, respace, scalper, scamper, scarped, scarper, scauper, scraped, scraper, scrapes, scrapie, secpars, spacers, spacier, spectra.

+2 letters: airscape, airspace, aspheric, calipers, caperers, caprices, capsomer, captures, champers, chapters, clampers, clappers, claspers, compares, copperas, crappers, crappies, crispate, epicarps, escapers, escarped, exocarps, mesocarp, pancreas, parchesi, parecism, paretics, patchers, peachers, peracids, percales, perisarc, picrates, piracies, poachers, postrace, practise, prancers, preaches, precasts, precrash, prefaces, prepacks, purchase, reclasps, replaces, replicas, respaced, respaces, sapremic, scalpers, scampers, scarpers, scarphed, scaupers, sceptral, scorepad, scrapers, scrapies, scrapped, scrapper, scrapple, seraphic, spectral, specular, spiracle, supercar.