поцарапать — meaning in English

English meaning

• graze verb To eat growing grass, or to let animals feed on pasture.
• scrape verb To drag something rough or sharp across a surface, often removing a layer or leaving a mark.
• scratch verb To rub or drag nails, claws, or a sharp point across a surface, especially to relieve an itch or leave a mark.

Senses

поцарапать is used for these senses in English:

• graze (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
• scrape (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
• scrape (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
• scratch To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
• scratch To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
• scratch To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• scratch To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.

graze — full definition

1. verb To eat growing grass, or to let animals feed on pasture.
2. verb To touch or rub something lightly while passing it, sometimes scraping the skin.
3. noun A minor scrape or scratch on the skin.

scrape — full definition

1. verb To drag something rough or sharp across a surface, often removing a layer or leaving a mark.
2. verb To just barely manage to achieve or obtain something.
3. verb To extract data automatically from a website or document not designed for easy machine reading.
4. noun A shallow injury or mark caused by rubbing against a rough surface.

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