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Synonyms for scrap

Most common

piece cutting chunk shred junk fighting moyle gubbins

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Piece — A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. The smallest amount

piece, bit, chip, shred, grain, flake, crumb, fragment, fleck, morsel, jot, cutting, portion, atom, chunk, part, hunk, drop, particle, end, tittle, scintilla

2. Junk — discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk

junk, trash US, rubbish AU, waste, garbage US AU CA, refuse, debris, litter, offal, gash slang UK

4. Scratching — A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips

scratching, gribble

Verb

1. Dispute

dispute, quarrel, argufy informal, altercate

2. Cancel — to stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely

cancel, abort

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. The smallest amount.

  2. n. 2

    Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.

    That car isn't good for anything but scrap.

  3. v. 1

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

  4. v. 2

    To discard; to get rid of.

Related words

Word family
scrappy scrapper
Phrases
scrap dealer scrap merchant

Forms

Plural
scraps → pieces, bits, chips, shreds…
Past participle
scrapped
e.g. scrapped → disputed, quarreled, argufied, altercated…

Example sentences

  • piece He showed kindness by giving me a piece of advice.
  • cutting Banks are cutting lending to industrial borrowers.
  • chunk Tourism could bring Algeria a big chunk of income.
  • shred The last shred of hope had vanished from her heart.
  • junk There's nothing in here but a lot of useless junk.
  • fighting They did not want to get involved in the fighting.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
scrapfalling
piecerising
cuttingsteady
chunkrising
shredrising
junkrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
end1, bit1, jot1
4 letters
part1, drop1, chip1, junk1, toss1, atom2, hunk1, gash1
5 letters
fight1, piece1, waste1, trash1, grain1, chuck1, ditch1, chunk1, shred1, abort2, flake1, crumb1, fleck1, offal
6 letters
combat2, refuse2, cancel2, debris2, litter2, morsel2, tittle2, argufy
7 letters
cutting2, portion2, dispute2, garbage2, rubbish2, discard2, quarrel2, gribble2, gubbins2
8 letters
fighting2, particle3, fragment2, skirmish2, jettison3
9 letters
scrimmage2, scintilla3, altercate
10 letters
scratching2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (atom2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
bribe
Deutsch
Brocken
Català
sobres