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A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). / (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. / An awkward set of circumstances.

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Source Word

scrape

IPA(Pronunciation)

/skɹeɪp/

Noun

countable uncountable slang Britain UK obsolete

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch). / (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons. / An awkward set of circumstances.

Japanese Meaning

擦り傷（擦ったことによる、浅い傷） / （俗語）素手での喧嘩・乱闘 / （俗語的表現）厄介な状況や困った事態

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After falling off his bike, he had a large scrape on his knee that stung for days.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

自転車から落ちて、彼は膝に大きな擦り傷を負い、数日間痛みが続いた。

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Sense（1）

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

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Sense（2）

(slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

He got in a scrape with the school bully.

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Sense（3）

An awkward set of circumstances.

Sense（4）

(Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

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