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scrape, scratch, scratching Definition: a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him";a harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her";(usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected; "they collected blood scrapings for analysis"; Derivational Morphology:
scrape, kowtow, genuflect
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