Scabble vs. Scrabble — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Scabble and Scrabble
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Scabble
To work or dress (stone) roughly, preliminary to fine tooling.
Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.
Scabble
To roughly dress stone.
Scrabble
To scrape or grope about frenetically with the hands or paws
"They often scrabbled through kitchen drawers looking for coins to buy bread" (Steve Friedman).
Scabble
See Scapple.
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Scrabble
To move or climb with scrambling, disorderly haste
Scrabbled down the rocks to the water.
Scrabble
To struggle or work hard in a disorderly or desperate fashion
"For quite some time I scrabbled around, playing the piano at jazz bars, doing whatever ... journalism I could get" (Frank Conroy).
Scrabble
To write hastily or make disordered markings; scribble.
Scrabble
To make or obtain by frenetic or desperate action
Scrabble a living from soil depleted of nutrients.
Scrabble
To scrape or scratch (a surface)
"Tubal got him a pointed rod / And scrabbled the earth for corn" (Rudyard Kipling).
Scrabble
To move or arrange hastily with the hands
"The next flat tombstone was covered with leaves. I scrabbled the dust away" (Ray Bradbury).
Scrabble
To scribble or write down hastily
Scrabbled the answer on a sheet of paper.
Scrabble
The act or an instance of scrabbling.
Scrabble
A scribble; a doodle.
Scrabble
(intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
Scrabble
(transitive) To gather hastily.
Scrabble
(intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.
Scrabble
(intransitive) To scribble.
Scrabble
(transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
To scrabble paper
Scrabble
A scramble.
A scrabble for dear life
Scrabble
To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.
Scrabble
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.
David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
Scrabble
To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.
Scrabble
The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.
Scrabble
An aimless drawing
Scrabble
A board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game
Scrabble
Feel searchingly;
She groped for his keys in the dark
Scrabble
Write down quickly without much attention to detail
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