outscrape

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9

Definition of outscrape

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, obsolete)To escape
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verb

  1. (Scotland, intransitive, obsolete)To escape
  2. (rare, transitive)To scrape out
    “The chairs were five degrees above Windsor, the carpet was ingrain, with huge circles, whose outlines were nearly outscraped, it having been stamped under foot for many years before Madam Tag had forced it to do a passive duty in her oracular chambers.”
  3. (transitive)To scrape better than; exceed or outdo in scraping
    “But there was neither harmony nor melody in their tones, for they belonged to the different stages and shows ; and if the musicians agreed in any thing, it seemed only in the efforts which they made to outscrape, outscreech, outblow and outdrum each other.”
    “Separation has only led to forced mobility, traffic congestion, anti-human city centres with one concrete office tower outscraping the next, subsidized and shoddy public transport etc.”

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Etymology

From out- + scrape, or possibly continuing Middle English outscrapen (“to remove, erase”).

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