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单词 scrap
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scrapverb

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scrap verb (THROW AWAY)

C2 [ T ] to not continue with a system or plan:

They're considering scrapping the tax and raising the money in other ways.
We scrapped our plans for a trip to France.

C2 [ T ] to get rid of something that is no longer useful or wanted, often using its parts in new ways:

Hundreds of nuclear weapons have been scrapped.

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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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Removing and getting rid of things

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

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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:

scrap iron/metal
We sold our old car for scrap.

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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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Rubbish and waste

scrap noun (SMALL PIECE)

C2 [ C ] a small piece of something or a small amount of information:

Do you have a scrap of paper I could write on?
I've read every scrap of information I can find on the subject.
There's not a scrap of (= no) evidence to suggest that he committed the crime.
scraps [ plural ]

small pieces of food that have not been eaten and are usually thrown away:

We give all our scraps to our cat.

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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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Food - general words

scrap noun (ARGUMENT)

[ C ] a fight or argument, especially a quick, noisy one about something not important:

A couple of kids were having a scrap in the street.

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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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Arguments & disagreements
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