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[ verb ] gather together over time; as of money or other resources

Synonyms

come_up scrape

Examples

"She had scraped together enough money for college"

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

The victims of the quacks are frequently poor people , like Mr._A. , who scrape_up their life savings to offer as a sacrifice to Doctor_Fraud 's avarice .

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