Synonyms for scramble
ˈskræm bəlscram·ble

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1. scramblenoun

   Antonyms:
   sortie

2. scramblenoun

   To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.

   Antonyms:
   sortie

3. scramblenoun

   To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.

   Antonyms:
   sortie

4. scramblenoun

   To mix food ingredients in a mix to be cooked into a loose mass.

   Antonyms:
   sortie

5. scramblenoun

   To process telecommunication signals to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.

   Antonyms:
   sortie

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1. scrambleverb

   Synonyms:
   struggle, hurry, bustle

   Antonyms:
   lag, dawdle, loiter, saunter

2. scramblenoun

   Synonyms:
   hurry, bustle, struggle, confusion, turmoil, ferment, commotion, bear-garden, babel, vortex

   Antonyms:
   order, orderliness, arrangement, leisureliness, method, uniformity

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1. scramble, scufflenoun

   an unceremonious and disorganized struggle

   Synonyms:
   scamper, scuffle hoe, hassle, rough-and-tumble, scurry, dogfight, scuffle, tussle

   Antonyms:
   unscramble

2. scamper, scramble, scurryverb

   rushing about hastily in an undignified way

   Synonyms:
   scuffle, scamper, scurry

   Antonyms:
   unscramble

3. scrambleverb

   to move hurriedly

   "The friend scrambled after them"

   Synonyms:
   struggle, beat, clamber, throw together, jumble, shin, shinny, sputter, skin

   Antonyms:
   unscramble

4. clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputterverb

   climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

   Synonyms:
   fight, beat, contend, shin, splutter, jumble, throw together, struggle, bark, spit out, sputter, pare, scrape, skin, peel, clamber, shinny

   Antonyms:
   unscramble

5. scramble, jumble, throw togetherverb

   bring into random order

   Synonyms:
   struggle, mix up, beat, fudge together, confuse, clamber, throw together, jumble, mingle, shin, shinny, sputter, skin

   Antonyms:
   unscramble

6. beat, scrambleverb

   stir vigorously

   "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, stupefy, baffle, stick, perplex, vanquish, get, mystify, flummox, shinny, jumble, beat, outwit, circumvent, tick, sputter, nonplus, trounce, pulsate, skin, clamber, drum, beat up, bunk, dumbfound, tucker out, flap, struggle, beat out, gravel, thump, ticktack, outsmart, thrum, ticktock, amaze, quiver, throw together, pound, work over, puzzle, overreach, bewilder, crush, tucker, vex, shin, wash up, outfox, pose, shell

   Antonyms:
   unscramble

7. scrambleverb

   make unintelligible

   "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it"

   Synonyms:
   struggle, beat, clamber, throw together, jumble, shin, shinny, sputter, skin

   Antonyms:
   unscramble

Matched Categories

1. • Agitate
   • Change
   • Climb
   • Cooking
   • Move
   • Struggle

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. scrambleverb

   Synonyms:
   struggle (as in climbing), scrabble

2. scrambleverb

   Synonyms:
   climb (with difficulty), clamber

3. scramblenoun

   Synonyms:
   struggle, contest, muss, scrabble

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1. scrambleverb

   Synonyms:
   scrabble, clamber, struggle, contend, strive

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1. List of paraphrases for "scramble":

   flush, rush

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1. Donna Orender:

   What Coach Auriemma is addressing is accountability and responsibility for who you are and how you interact with others, we hear so much and see so much of the coddled generation these days and especially in youth sports, where there is a focus on the 'me' culture in the scramble to be seen and earn a scholarship.

2. Gennadiy Goldberg:

   There's definitely a scramble. It's all dependent on Greece.

3. Craig Levine:

   We suddenly had to scramble and tell everyone,' Don't come,'.

4. Jerry Tormey:

   If you scramble, you could get it done, I suppose, but to pull that off you really have a challenge, i think there would be a lot of people who would stand by their commitment and stay with Hillary. It would be a challenge for Joe.

5. Mike Nuss:

   We've had to scramble and resurrect our training.