scrabble
verb (used with object)
to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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An amateur archeologist, he has scrabbled under the ruins of the Acropolis for the broken dishes of pre-Christian housewives.
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