Crossword-Solution: SCRAPING 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Scraping p. pr. & vb. n. of Scrape
Scraping n. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even,
or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.
Scraping n. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a
substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
Scraping a. Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one
who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.

We have 9 clues for the answer “SCRAPING”

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Archaeological sample 1 answer
Partner of bowing. 1 answer
Removing windshield ice, e.g. 1 answer
Removing, as paint 1 answer
Working on dirty pans 1 answer
CURRY ___ 20 answers
Raspy 21 answers
Abrasion 27 answers
miserly 64 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCRAPING (5)

She could hear the scraping of violins being tuned, the tinkle of mandolins, and the growl of a double bass.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The scraping of the scabbard against its holder as I withdrew it sounded like the filing of cast iron with a great rasp, and I looked to see the room immediately filled with alarmed and attacking guardsmen.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Peer as I would I could not penetrate the darkness, and then I listened intently for the sound of breathing near me; but except for the noise of the rapids, the soft scraping of the boats, and the lapping of the water at their sides I could distinguish no sound.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Minutes passed—minutes that seemed hours—during which time periods of sepulchral silence would be followed by a repetition of the uncanny scraping of naked feet slinking warily upon him.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
There warn’t no other sound but the scraping of the feet on the floor and blowing noses—because people always blows them more at a funeral than they do at other places except church.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with SCRAPING (3)

You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize …
Douglas Coupland Player One: What Is to Become of Us
God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!''John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his e…
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I argue against purism not because I want a devastated world, the Mordor of industrial capitalism emerging as from a closely aligned alternate universe through our floating islands of plastic gradually breaking down into microbeads consumed by the scant marine life left alive after generations of overfishing, bottom scraping, and coral reef — killing ocean acidification; our human-caused, place-devastating elevated sea levels; our earth-shaking, water poisoning fracking; our …
Alexis Shotwell Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, WSJ.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1967–2017).