Usually means: Frantically searching or struggling clumsily.
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  1. scrabbling: Merriam-Webster
  2. scrabbling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scrabbling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scrabbling, scrabbling: Wordnik
  5. scrabbling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scrabbling: Wiktionary
  7. scrabbling: Dictionary.com
  8. scrabbling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Scrabbling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Scrabbling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. scrabbling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. scrabbling: FreeDictionary.org
  13. scrabbling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scrabbling: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scrabbling)

▸ noun:  A sound or motion that scrabbles.

Similar:
scribble, grope for, scritching, scratching, scrawk, clawing, brattling, scuffling, clampering, skittering, more...

Opposite:
orderliness, tidiness, organization

Types:
scratching, clawing, grappling, groping, fumbling, more...

Adjectives:
frantic, little, faint, hard, more, sudden, general, delicate, grubby, soft, everlasting

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Similar:
scribble, grope for, scritching, scratching, scrawk, clawing, brattling, scuffling, clampering, skittering, more...

Opposite:
orderliness, tidiness, organization

Types:
scratching, clawing, grappling, groping, fumbling, more...

Adjectives:
frantic, little, faint, hard, more, sudden, general, delicate, grubby, soft, everlasting



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