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To grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something
“I began to scrabble and fumble around on the floor in search of some kind of weapon.”
To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws
“Birds and other unseen creatures scrabble about in the windswept bushes of central park, but I would rather not deliberate too much about that.”
To move or climb up or over something, typically using one's hands
“Sometimes they would clamber from one waist-high rock to another, and sometimes they would scrabble up a slope of pebbles and small rocks.”
To do something with great effort
“Taylor Mead, like many of Warhol's aged stars, had to scrabble to keep financially above water.”
To move or do something with great haste
“On the third day, we had to scrabble to finish our prints and set up an exhibit for that evening.”
To move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground
To search for something, especially by digging into or through
To write or draw (something), especially aimlessly or hastily
To make a long, narrow superficial wound or mark on a surface, especially skin
A hard struggle to achieve one's aims
“She'd had a tough scrabble to get this far, only to find this oddity sitting in what she had expected to be the treasure chamber.”
A piece of writing or a picture produced carelessly or hurriedly
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