Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To remove something by a scraping action.
Usage examples of "scrape off".
Ed Watson was the first one since the Injuns to hack out all that thorn, dig out palmetta roots thick as your leg, scrape off enough of that old shell to make a farm.
Turning off the water between rinsings, Maia proceeded to scrape off layer after layer of grime, until her skin squeaked when rubbed.
Hugh set down the pen and used the penknife to scrape off a blot before turning to regard him with that same pensive expression Zacharias had seen before.
That was actually us gliding past it, just far enough away to miss it but close enough to scrape off paint.
You want to scrape off but the slightest of the parchment, just to clean it.
The Wise Ones were using slim, curved pieces of bronze, called staera, to scrape off sweat and the day's dirt.
True, from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance, somewhat resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as flexible and soft as satin.
A wave of nausea nearly overwhelmed her, ana she rubbed her palm hastily upon die warm rough stone of the monastery wall to scrape off the remains.
He showered first, to scrape off the worst of the gash, and then climbed in.
But he had to scrape off bits of spiderweb that clung to his mouth and trunk, and Icebones saw spiders scrambling away into his fur.
Her fingers had just closed on it when she heard a rustle and a scrape off downhill.