to scramble
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2.6
- verb
- /ˈskræmbəl/
:
revolver
- Administrators, policymakers, and university faculty are scrambling to meet the criticisms of our nation's schools.
- scrambled eggs
Some people can scramble them, some people can keep them hard boiled.
- Some people can scramble them, some people can keep them hard boiled.
- And so we, we got our our eggs scrambled here.
- Indy, on the other hand, I make her some English muffins with a whole egg scrambled.
- The box was like, oh, you got played, you won, but the numbers were scrambled.
Examples
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Tony, where are the scrambled eggs?
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Let's you and me go back to my place and scramble some eggs.
Fiction book (1994) -
No, I'll make you scrambled eggs in the morning.
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- I make mean scrambled eggs and cook plenty of bacon.
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- It's a Mexican sausage mixed in with scrambled eggs.
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They'll be eating a lot of scrambled eggs.
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As we were finishing the last of the eggs I'd scrambled, a car drove up.
Fiction book (1992) -
In the kitchen, Doreen, dressed for work, was eating scrambled eggs and bacon.
Fiction book (1996) -
Three cars were disassembled, their parts scrambled, and then reassembled from the pile of random components.
Academic text (2007) -
She decided to scramble the eggs with cheese and herbs for breakfast.
Synonyms
365
1.0
Change the order of things so they are random
248
1.0
To make something untidy or dirty
156
1.0
To stir food quickly and strongly so it becomes smooth or light
152
1.0
To mix a liquid by moving it with a spoon
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1.8
To lift and turn food gently to mix it
65
2.7
To make people confused and things messy
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3.7
To move things or people from one place to another, often repeatedly
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1.9
Mix things up so their order is not clear
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3.8
Mix things together in a confused way
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3.5
Make something quickly without much care or planning
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5.5
To make something untidy or not in its usual order
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4.5
To make something lose its order or structure
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3.4
To put things together in a mixed and untidy pile
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3.4
Mix a few ingredients quickly without much preparation
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2.1
Make a place messy so things are not in order
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4.7
Mix cards so their order becomes random
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
A chaotic rushed situation that happens because of poor planning
How Mixed
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word scramble comes from old words like scratch and scrabble that mean 'to move or claw about', so a helpful picture is stirring eggs with quick, rough movements. That's why to scramble eggs is to mix them until they are light and fluffy.