outscrape
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of outscrape
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (Scotland, intransitive, obsolete)To escape
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verb
- (Scotland, intransitive, obsolete)To escape
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(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.”
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(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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From out- + scrape, or possibly continuing Middle English outscrapen (“to remove, erase”).
Words you can make from outscrape
200+ playable · top: OUTCAPERS (13 pts)
Best play outcapers 13 points8-letter words
7 words7-letter words
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5-letter words
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