Scribble vs. Scrabble — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Scribble and Scrabble
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Definitions
Scribble➦
To write (a note, for example) hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.
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.
Scribble➦
To draw (a picture) hurriedly or carelessly.
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).
Scribble➦
To write in a hurried careless way.
Scrabble➦
To move or climb with scrambling, disorderly haste
Scrabbled down the rocks to the water.
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Scribble➦
To make meaningless marks, as with a pen or pencil.
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).
Scribble➦
Careless hurried writing.
Scrabble➦
To write hastily or make disordered markings; scribble.
Scribble➦
Meaningless marks and lines.
Scrabble➦
To make or obtain by frenetic or desperate action
Scrabble a living from soil depleted of nutrients.
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Scribble➦
(ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.
Scrabble➦
To scrape or scratch (a surface)
"Tubal got him a pointed rod / And scrabbled the earth for corn" (Rudyard Kipling).
Scribble➦
To doodle.
Scrabble➦
To move or arrange hastily with the hands
"The next flat tombstone was covered with leaves. I scrabbled the dust away" (Ray Bradbury).
Scribble➦
To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.
Scrabble➦
To scribble or write down hastily
Scrabbled the answer on a sheet of paper.
Scribble➦
To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
Scrabble➦
The act or an instance of scrabbling.
Scribble➦
Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
Scrabble➦
A scribble; a doodle.
Scribble➦
To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scrabble➦
(intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
Scribble➦
To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
Scrabble➦
(transitive) To gather hastily.
Scribble➦
To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
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.
Scribble➦
To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite.
Scrabble➦
(intransitive) To scribble.
Scribble➦
Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.
Neither did I but vacant seasons spendIn this my scribble.
Scrabble➦
(transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
To scrabble paper
Scribble➦
Poor handwriting
Scrabble➦
A scramble.
A scrabble for dear life
Scribble➦
An aimless drawing
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.
Scribble➦
Write down quickly without much attention to detail
Scrabble➦
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.
David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate.
Scribble➦
Write carelessly
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