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Scrabble (Verb)

Feel searchingly; "She groped for his keys in the dark".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

She had to scrabble around for her glasses that had fallen on the floor while she was sleeping.
The blind man had to scrabble for the cane that had slipped out of his hands.
In the complete darkness of the power outage, she had to scrabble for the matchbox.
I had to scrabble through my bag for the phone that went off during the meeting.
She had to scrabble under the bed for the missing earring.

Write down quickly without much attention to detail.

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

She hastily jotted down a few answers, hoping to scrabble together something coherent for the assignment.
The detective had to act fast and simply did her best to scrabble down the plate numbers of fleeing suspects.
Given the lack of time to gather more information, she had to scrabble something to write in her diary.
After the surprise phone call, he was only able to scrabble a few sentences as a hasty note of explanation.
The storm left him unable to hear properly, but he desperately tried to scrabble whatever voices came through on the radio.