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scraping has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
(usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected
“they collected blood scrapings for analysis”
a harsh noise made by scraping
“the scrape of violin bows distracted her”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for scraping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.