scrape

Many — but not all — are scraped free of fire debris from destroyed homes and businesses.

While is an 18th and 19th-Century northern English verb meaning to scrape, rake, or pull together with the hands.

Getting rid of him will require a good deal of scraping.

Back in the PG25 community hub in John Wood Street, volunteer Addie Williams is enjoying a free coffee after a morning "scraping out shop doorways".

Defense attorneys said Ramos-Brito sustained multiple contusions on his face, neck and back and had cuts and scrapes on his body from being dragged across the pavement later.