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# scrabble

«scrabble» in Mova's school dictionary: **To scratch or grope about quickly with your hands or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (scrabble, scrabbles, scrabbled, scrabbling); noun (Scrabble — a game)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To scratch or grope about quickly with your hands or claws, looking for something or trying to hold on: he scrabbled in his pocket for a coin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#m1)

2) To struggle or hurry to get something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#m2)

3) (Scrabble, a name) a board game in which players make words with letter tiles and score points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Stories: animals scrabble at the earth; Mole scrabbles and digs his way up from his home in the first chapter of The Wind in the Willows; Alice scrabbles to keep hold. Everyday: playing Scrabble at home, a good game for spelling and maths (adding scores, double and triple word squares).

### examples

- Mole scrabbled and scraped his way up to the sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#x1)
- The dog scrabbled at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#x2)
- She scrabbled in her bag for her keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#x3)
- The kitten scrabbled up the curtain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#x4)
- We played Scrabble after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#x5)
- «Quiz» on a triple word score earned lots of points in Scrabble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#x6)
- He scrabbled for a handhold on the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/#x7)

### note

Double b. The game is a brand name, written with a capital S. Similar verbs: scramble, scratch, grope. Not the same as «scribble» (to write messily).

### In the corpora

- [He dug up his tunnel: «he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged», muttering to himself «Up we go!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/25-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scrabble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scrabble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.