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Dragging something hard across something else until friction has opinions.

means To remove a surface layer, or graze it, by rubbing with a sharp or rough edge.

from From Old Norse skrapa, to scratch, the same grindy ancestor that gave us scrap and scruball words that sound like the thing they do.

Knee classicChildhood's most common badge of misadventure.
Data heistSoftware scraping harvests web pages wholesale.
Scrape bySurviving with barely enough, financially graze-burned.
OnomatopoeiaThe word grates like the action it names.
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