| 单词 | scrabble |
| 释义 | scrabble (once / 19537 pages) vn To scrabble is to grasp or grope. If you lose your footing while rock climbing, you'll scrabble around with your fingers for a ledge to hang onto. The verb scrabble means to scratch or grab with your hands, the way you might search for something in a dark room or clutch at something frantically as you drop it. Scrabble also describes an animal's movements, like the sound of a squirrel that scrabbles, or scurries, out of your garbage can. Scrabble is also the name of a board game that involves making words out of letter tiles. Scrabble comes from the Dutch schrabben, "to scratch." WORD FAMILYscrabble: scrabbled, scrabbles, scrabbling USAGE EXAMPLESThe charity is supporting the most vulnerable returnees, but the town is scrabbling to survive. The Guardian(Dec 03, 2016) Their desperate scrabbling for footing as they slowly choke to death is called “piano playing,” Christman explains. National Geographic(Oct 26, 2016) But as soon as Rick’s people and the story itself resume their usual scrabbling to Just Survive Somehow, how much will that matter? Salon(Oct 23, 2016) 1v feel searchingly Syn|Hyper grope for feel grope or feel in search of something 2v write down quickly without much attention to detail Syn|Hyper scribble write communicate or express by writing 3n an aimless drawing Syn|Hyper doodle, scribble drawing a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines Scrabble (once / 52531 pages) n WORD FAMILY Scrabble: Scrabbles USAGE EXAMPLESThink of the election as a game of Scrabble. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Scrabble, restaurant-prep, my children’s brown-bag lunches — whatever she enjoys, she enjoys with a drive to excellence that would wither the casual player. New York Times(Oct 19, 2016) And the nation’s prowess at Scrabble went global this year when a Nigerian player, Wellington Jighere, captured the world championship. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) n a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game Hyper word game any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words board gamea game played on a specially designed board |
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