Dic: scrap, scrape, scrape by

• President Hussein called on all countries in the Middle East to scrap nuclear or chemical weapons.
• She went round the car scraping the frost off the windows.

scrap (scraps, scrapping, scrapped)

scrape (scrapes, scraping, scraped)

VERB | If you scrap something, you get rid of it or cancel it. [INFORMAL, JOURNALISM or]

VERB | If you scrape something from a surface, you remove it, especially by pulling a sharp object over the surface.

scrape by:

PHRASAL VERB | If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.

• We're barely scraping by on my salary.
• The firm had barely scraped by with half a billion dollars in 1994.

.... Cobuild