(~s, scrambling, ~d)
1.
If you ~ over rocks or up a hill, you move quickly over them or up it using your hands to help you.
Tourists were scrambling over the rocks looking for the perfect camera angle...
= clamber
VERB: V prep/adv
2.
If you ~ to a different place or position, you move there in a hurried, awkward way.
Ann threw back the covers and ~d out of bed...
VERB: V prep/adv
3.
If a number of people ~ for something, they compete energetically with each other for it.
More than three million fans are expected to ~ for tickets...
Business is booming and foreigners are scrambling to invest.
VERB: V for n, V to-inf
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Scramble is also a noun.
...a ~ to get a seat on the early morning flight.
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N for n, N to-inf
4.
If you ~ eggs, you break them, mix them together and then heat and stir the mixture in a pan.
Make the toast and ~ the eggs.
VERB: V n
~d
...~d eggs and bacon.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
5.
If a device ~s a radio or telephone message, it interferes with the sound so that the message can only be understood by someone with special equipment.
The latest machines ~ the messages so that the conversation cannot easily be intercepted.
VERB: V n