Definition of Scramble

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Scramble

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.

To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.

The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.

The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.

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Scramble Quotations

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
Douglas Horton

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
Brit Hume

The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.
Joe Henderson

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
Hudson Stuck

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
Wellington Mara

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.
Tim Cahill

Scramble Translations

scramble in French is coder, brouillons, brouillez, brouillent
scramble in Spanish is cifrar

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