- 1scale something (formal) to climb to the top of something very high and steep the first woman to scale Mount Everest (figurative) He has scaled the heights of his profession.
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fish - 2scale something to remove the small flat hard pieces of skin from a fish
- 3scale something to remove tartar from the teeth by scraping The dentist scaled and polished my teeth. change size
- 4scale something (from something) (to something) (technology) to change the size of something Text can be scaled from 4 points to 108 points without any loss of quality. Phrasal Verbsscale downscale up
scale
verbNAmE//skeɪl//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they scale he / she / it scales
past simple scaled
-ing form scaling
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