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Difference Between Scribble and Scrabble

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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

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