scrap
verb/skræp/
/skræp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they scrap | /skræp/ /skræp/ |
| he / she / it scraps | /skræps/ /skræps/ |
| past simple scrapped | /skræpt/ /skræpt/ |
| past participle scrapped | /skræpt/ /skræpt/ |
| -ing form scrapping | /ˈskræpɪŋ/ /ˈskræpɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, often passive] scrap something to cancel or get rid of something that is no longer practical or useful
- They had been forced to scrap plans for a new school building.
- The oldest of the aircraft were scrapped.
Extra Examples- Around 40 managerial positions are to be scrapped in a major shake-up of the company.
- The worst cars in the fleet were scrapped first.
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- [intransitive] (informal) to fight with somebody
- The bigger boys started scrapping.
Word Originverb sense 1 late Middle English (as a plural noun denoting fragments of uneaten food): from Old Norse skrap ‘scraps’; related to skrapa ‘to scrape’. The verb dates from the late 19th cent. verb sense 2 late 17th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘sinister plot, scheme’): perhaps from the noun scrape.
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