scrape

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb transitive

Ar. and P. ξεῖν.

shave: P. and V. ξυρεῖν.

scrape away: V. διαμᾶν (acc.), P. διαμᾶσθαι (acc.) (Thuc. 4, 26).

scrape together (a livelihood, etc.): P. and V. συλλέγειν.

substantive

difficulty, trouble: P. and V. ἀπορία, ἡ; see trouble.

what a scrape I have got myself into: Ar. εἰς οἷ' ἐμαυτὸν εἰσεκύλισα πράγματα (Thesmophoriazusae 651, cf. 766).