scraped up
Collected with difficulty
Scraped up describes something gathered with effort or difficulty, often from limited resources.
You scrape up enough money for rent, scrape up evidence for a case, or scrape up the courage to ask someone out.
The image is of collecting scattered bits from a surface: We scraped up enough volunteers to staff the event.
It can also mean physically injured by scraping: His knees were all scraped up from the fall.
- accumulateGather gradually
- upOut of bed
- gatheredBrought into one place
- collectBring items together
- amassCollect in quantity
raked · remnants · picked clean · muster · scrounged · bottom of the barrel · grit · fragments · resourcefulness · bootstrapping · improvisation · made do · abraded · roughed up · resilience · scavenging · salvaged · scrimped
scraped uprolling in
Arriving continuously, abundantly
stockpiled · hoarded · amassed
scraped upinherited
Received from forebears
came into · squandered · threw away · wasted · frittered away