| English | Russian |
| begin to scrape | зацарапать |
| begin to scrape one's feet | зашаркать |
| begin to scrape on a fiddle, etc | запиликать |
| begin to scrape along a surface | зачиркать |
| begin to scrape off | заскоблить |
| draw harshly over so as to make a scrape | чирикать (= чиркать) |
| rub so as to make a scrape | чирикать (= чиркать) |
| scrape harshly so as to make a scrape | чирикать (= чиркать) |
| scrape to get by | с трудом сводить концы с концами (In eight months, he had gone from an unknown artist scraping to get by to an international superstar. ART Vancouver) |