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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishscrape something ↔ back phrasal verbif you scrape your hair back, you pull it away from your face and tie it at the back Her blonde hair was scraped back into a ponytail. → scrape→ See Verb table
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scrape back• She scraped the earth back and saw something very dark blue - china or glass, buried there.• She had scraped her hair back from her forehead and tied it in a ponytail with a pink ribbon.• He felt the blade of the open razor scrape against the back of his neck and again on his forehead.• Automatically his hand went up to scrape his hair back over his ears.
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