scrabble+(verb)

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• scrabble — ► VERB 1) scratch or grope around with one s fingers to find or hold on to something. 2) move quickly and in a disorderly manner; scramble. ► NOUN 1) an act of scrabbling. 2) (Scrabble) trademark a board game in which players build up words from… …   English terms dictionary

• Scrabble — Daten zum Spiel Autor Alfred Mosher Butts Verlag James Brunot (1949), Selchow Righter (1953), Spear Spiele (1953), Schowanek (1953), Hasbro …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• scrabble — verb 1》 scratch or grope around with one s fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something. 2》 move quickly and in a disorderly manner; scramble. noun 1》 an act of scrabbling. 2》 a disorderly struggle or fight. 3》 (Scrabble) trademark a board… …   English new terms dictionary

• scrabble — verb a) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws. Thus I lay for a long time, but afterwards stood up and cried aloud, and shrieked if anyone should haply hear me, calling to Mr. Glennie and Ratsey, and even Elzevir, by name, to save… …   Wiktionary

• scrabble — verb (intransitive always + adv + prep) to try to find something by feeling with your fingers, especially quickly among a lot of other things (+ around/about etc): She was scrabbling through her pockets for a cigarette …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• scrabble — [[t]skræ̱b(ə)l[/t]] scrabbles, scrabbling, scrabbled 1) VERB If you scrabble for something, especially something that you cannot see, you move your hands or your feet about quickly and hurriedly in order to find it. [V for n] He grabbed his… …   English dictionary

• Scrabble — For other uses, see Scrabble (disambiguation). Scrabble Current Scrabble logo by Hasbro, Inc. used in the USA and Canada, since March 2008 Former Scrabble logo by Hasbro, Inc. used in the USA and Canada, until March 2008 …   Wikipedia

• scrabble — UK [ˈskræb(ə)l] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms scrabble : present tense I/you/we/they scrabble he/she/it scrabbles present participle scrabbling past tense scrabbled past participle scrabbled a) to make a lot of small quick movements with… …   English dictionary

• scrabble — I. verb (scrabbled; scrabbling) Etymology: Dutch schrabbelen to scratch Date: 1537 intransitive verb 1. scrawl, scribble 2. to scratch, claw, or grope about clumsily or frantically 3. a. scramble …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• scrabble — [c]/ˈskræbəl / (say skrabuhl) verb (scrabbled, scrabbling) –verb (i) 1. to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands. 2. to scrawl; scribble. 3. to struggle to gain possession of something. 4. to scratch or grope about clumsily or blindly.… …  

• scrabble for — phr verb Scrabble for is used with these nouns as the object: ↑foothold …   Collocations dictionary