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SCOOP UP

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Dictionary entry overview: What does scoop up mean?

• SCOOP UP (verb)
The verb SCOOP UP has 1 sense:

1. take out or up with or as if with a scoop

Familiarity information: SCOOP UP used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SCOOP UP (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Take out or up with or as if with a scoop

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lift out; scoop; scoop up; scoop out; take up

Context example:

scoop the sugar out of the container

Hypernyms (to "scoop up" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scoop up"):

dip (scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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SCOOP UP: related words searches

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