scrape

To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.

That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.

To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.

Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife.

To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.

We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.

To barely manage to achieve or attain.

I scraped a pass in the exam.

To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

Just use whatever you can scrape together.

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

The sound or action of something being scraped.

For a long while, the only sounds in the café were the scrapes of forks against old white plates and occasional slurps from coffee mugs.

The scrape of the plate against the stone woke him, and he looked across to find Isocrates there, replacing the food.

Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.

A little solace came at tea time, in the shape of a double ration of bread—a whole, instead of a half-slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: […]

Or I could make a cup of tea and sit on the toilet with it – now we’re talking! And what about some toast and that last scrape of Marmite I hid…

A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

He got in a scrape with the school bully.

An awkward set of circumstances.

I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

Stuart made us all laugh - his mischievous stories were told throughout his career and in later days featured some very senior politicians and railway managers. He certainly got into many scrapes over the years.