scrapverb
uk/skræp/us/skræp/-pp-scrap verb (THROW AWAY)
C2 [ T ] to not continue with a system or plan:
C2 [ T ] to get rid of something that is no longer useful or wanted, often using its parts in new ways:
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
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scrap verb (ARGUMENT)
[ I ] to have a fight or an argument
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
- slug it out idiom
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scrapnoun
uk/skræp/us/skræp/scrap noun (METAL)
C2 [ U ] old cars and machines or pieces of metal, etc. that are not now needed but have parts that can be used to make other things:
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Chemistry: metals & metalworking
- amalgam
- arc welding
- brass
- cast iron
- Duralumin
- ferromagnetic
- ferromagnetism
- gilt
- heavy metal
- magnetic
- magneto
- metallurgy
- metalwork
- pewter
- soldering iron
- spot-welding
- titanium
- tungsten
- weld
- welder
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scrap noun (SMALL PIECE)
C2 [ C ] a small piece of something or a small amount of information:
small pieces of food that have not been eaten and are usually thrown away:
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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scrap noun (ARGUMENT)
[ C ] a fight or argument, especially a quick, noisy one about something not important:
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
- slug it out idiom
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