scraped

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past simple and past participle of

to remove an unwanted covering or a top layer from something, especially using a sharp edge or something rough:

[ + obj + adj ] Scrape your boots clean before you come in.

We'll have to scrape the snow off the car before we go out in it.

Emily scraped away the dead leaves to reveal the tiny shoot of a new plant.

to (cause to) rub against a surface so that slight damage or an unpleasant noise is produced:

Jackie fell over and scraped her knee (on the pavement).

I was woken up by the noise of branches scraping against my bedroom window.

to succeed in getting or achieving something, but with difficulty or by a very small amount:

Her grades weren't great, but she scraped into university.

to get data from a website, etc., using a special computer program:

Twitter is a veritable playground for data scientists looking to scrape and analyze public data.

Millions of Flickr photos were scraped to train facial recognition software.