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    scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping , simple past and past participle scrapped)

    (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.

    (transitive) To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.

    Synonyms: abort, cancel, mothball

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrap

    vs.

    scrape (third-person singular simple present scrapes, present participle scraping , simple past and past participle scraped)

    (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.

    Synonym: scuff
    She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
    That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
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    (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

    Just use whatever you can scrape together.

    (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

    They didn’t provide an API, so I simply scraped their website.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrape