The difference between Fight and Scrape

When used as nouns, fight means an occasion of fighting, whereas scrape means a broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

When used as verbs, fight means to contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc, whereas scrape means to draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fight and Scrape

  1. Fight as a verb (intransitive):

    To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

    Examples:

    "A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous."

  2. Fight as a verb (reciprocal):

    To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.

    Examples:

    "The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour."

  3. Fight as a verb (intransitive):

    To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.

    Examples:

    "He fought for the Democrats in the last election."

  4. Fight as a verb (transitive):

    To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).

    Examples:

    "The battle was fought just over that hill."

  5. Fight as a verb (transitive):

    To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

    Examples:

    "My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II."

  6. Fight as a verb (transitive):

    To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.

    Examples:

    "The government pledged to fight corruption."

  7. Fight as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

    Examples:

    "to fight cocks;  to fight one's ship"

  1. Fight as a noun:

    An occasion of fighting.

    Examples:

    "One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight."

  2. Fight as a noun (archaic):

    A battle between opposing armies.

  3. Fight as a noun:

    A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

    Examples:

    "Watch your language, are you looking for a fight?"

  4. Fight as a noun (sports):

    A boxing or martial arts match.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night."

  5. Fight as a noun:

    A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.

    Examples:

    "I'll put up a fight to save this company."

  6. Fight as a noun (uncountable):

    The will or ability to fight.

    Examples:

    "That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him."

  7. Fight as a noun (obsolete):

    A screen for the combatants in ships.

  1. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.

    Examples:

    "Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound."

    "Scrape the chewing gum off with a knife."

  2. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.

    Examples:

    "She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee."

  3. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To barely manage to achieve.

    Examples:

    "I scraped a pass in the exam."

  4. Scrape as a verb (transitive):

    To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.

    Examples:

    "Just use whatever you can scrape together."

  5. Scrape as a verb (computing):

    To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.

  6. Scrape as a verb:

    To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.

    Examples:

    "He scraped and saved until he became rich."

  7. Scrape as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.

  8. Scrape as a verb:

    To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.

  9. Scrape as a verb:

    To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Macaulay"

  1. Scrape as a noun:

    A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

    Examples:

    "He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee."

  2. Scrape as a noun:

    A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

    Examples:

    "He got in a scrape with the school bully."

  3. Scrape as a noun:

    An awkward set of circumstances.

    Examples:

    "I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present."

  4. Scrape as a noun (British, slang):

    A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

  5. Scrape as a noun:

    A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

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