SCRAWL


Meaning of SCRAWL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ skrɔ:l ]

( scrawls, scrawling, scrawled)

1.

If you scrawl something, you write it in a careless and untidy way.

He scrawled a hasty note to his wife...

Someone had scrawled ‘Scum’ on his car.

...racist graffiti scrawled on school walls.

VERB : V n prep , V with quote , V-ed

2.

You can refer to writing that looks careless and untidy as a scrawl .

The letter was handwritten, in a hasty, barely decipherable scrawl.

N-VAR

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