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Word: Scrabble
Speech Type: Verb
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘make marks at random, scrawl’): from Middle Dutch schrabbelen, frequentative of schrabben ‘to scrape’. The noun sense ‘struggle to achieve something’ is originally a North American usage dating from the late 18th century
ˈskrabl
scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something
Short Definition:scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something
Examples:- she scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for purchase
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