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To scrabble is to move your hands — or sometimes your feet — quickly and without much control, usually because you are trying to find something, hold on, or get something done in a hurry. You scrabble around in a bag for your keys. An animal might scrabble at a door. There is a feeling of mess, not a neat search. People also say scrabble for when they are fighting to get something there is not enough of: shops scrabble for staff. Informal, and common in both British and American English. The board game Scrabble is a brand name with a capital S; this verb is the older, ordinary word.
慌亂地抓、摸索；（為搶到某物而）爭搶
組成From Middle Dutch schrabbelen, a “doing it again and again” form of schrabben (“to scrape”), like English scrab + -le, where -le makes a small repeated action. Related to scrape.
同家族的字
- scrapethe scraping action this word grew from
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Scrabblename/ˈskɹæ.bəl/
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A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.
- So that's what's in the forbidden room! Scrabble! I want to laugh, shriek with laughter, fall off my chair. This was once the game of old women, old men, in the summers or in retirement villas, to be played when there was nothing good on television. Or of adolescents, once, long long ago. […] Now of course it's something different. Now it's forbidden, for us.
- Start by asking students if they ever watch Wheel of Fortune, or play games like Hangman or Scrabble.® Ask whether they have ever noticed any patterns in the frequency with which letters appear.
scrabbleverb/ˈskɹæbəl/
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To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
- […] there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.
- So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
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To gather hastily.
- “Oh. The perfect ending to the perfect-- [chuckles] I almost said evening. More like months, though, isn't it? Since we started scrabbling for coins because the damn government took away our-- every thing. They took everything. And the only thing that was left, you idiots either lost, gave away, ate, or just blew up and sank.”
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To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
- She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
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To scribble.
- David […] scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
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To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
- to scrabble paper
scrabblenoun/ˈskɹæbəl/
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A scramble.
- a scrabble for dear life
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。