scrape off
Intermediate (B1) neutral
To use something hard and flat to push and remove a dirty or unwanted layer from a surface.
"He scraped the ice off his car windscreen before driving to work."
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they couldn't be bothered to scrape off.
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Let's go scrape off the war paint.
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let me see scrape off all the loose flakes
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Whatever they could scrape off the internet, they already have.
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Fallow · 71:58
so it's always important to scrape off the sinew.