scrawl
verb /skrɔːl/
/skrɔːl/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they scrawl | /skrɔːl/ /skrɔːl/ |
| he / she / it scrawls | /skrɔːlz/ /skrɔːlz/ |
| past simple scrawled | /skrɔːld/ /skrɔːld/ |
| past participle scrawled | /skrɔːld/ /skrɔːld/ |
| -ing form scrawling | /ˈskrɔːlɪŋ/ /ˈskrɔːlɪŋ/ |
- to write something in a careless untidy way, making it difficult to read synonym scribble
- scrawl something (across/in/on/over something) I tried to read his directions, scrawled on a piece of paper.
- scrawl across/in/on/over something Someone had scrawled all over my notes.
Extra Examples- The official scrawled his signature at the bottom of the form.
- There was a message scrawled on the board.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryScrawl is used with these nouns as the object:- graffiti
- signature
- word
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: apparently an alteration of the verb crawl, perhaps influenced by obsolete scrawl ‘sprawl’.