Modifying Another Word

• frantically: My right boot scrabbles frantically for a better purchase.

Modifies a noun

• player: Scrabble players know the answer to that one: homocysteine.

• board: The scrabble board, does not fit the turn table.

• game: This deluxe version of Travel Scrabble offers players a compact and robust Scrabble game which is ideal for journeys, holidays etc.

• word: Scrabble search can be made from a 209,000 word allowed scrabble words list with scores.

• tile: Use craft foam shapes, felt, old scrabble tiles and jigsaw pieces - whatever you can find!

Modifying Another Word

• about: Indeed she now turned on her side and began to scrabble about under the moss and pebbles as if in search of something.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: And, on occasion, when thought strays from the ordinary monsters come scrabbling up out of this well of darkness.

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: Climb into the roof where the veins finish at the upstream end and scrabble up a slab into a rift.

Preposition: in

• dirt: Scrabble in the dirt of your worth For your penny's worth, your misery, your mirth.

• sand: He can pound his playdough, use his paws to scrabble in the sand and bang his drum when he wants to be Loud!

Preposition: for

• grip: It doesn't scrabble for grip or tug at the steering wheel; it doesn't spin its front wheels on a brisk getaway.