"outscrape" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: outscrapes [present, singular, third-person], outscraping [participle, present], outscraped [participle, past], outscraped [past]
Etymology: From out- + scrape, or possibly continuing Middle English outscrapen (“to remove, erase”). Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|scrape}} out- + scrape, {{inh|en|enm|outscrapen|t=to remove, erase}} Middle English outscrapen (“to remove, erase”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} outscrape (third-person singular simple present outscrapes, present participle outscraping, simple past and past participle outscraped)
  1. (intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To escape Tags: Scotland, intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-outscrape-en-verb-M9I5QnLW Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 4 34
  2. (transitive, rare) To scrape out Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-outscrape-en-verb-WGeaWIIq Categories (other): English terms prefixed with out- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with out-: 30 47 23
  3. (transitive) To scrape better than; exceed or outdo in scraping Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-outscrape-en-verb-Tb3INxcW

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