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Definition
scrap verb (THROW AWAY)
/skræp/ v (-pp-)
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[T] to not continue with a system or plan
They're considering scrapping the tax and raising the money in other ways.
We scrapped our plans for a trip to France.
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[T] to get rid of something which is no longer useful or wanted, often using its parts in new ways
Hundreds of nuclear weapons have been scrapped.
(Definition of scrap verb (THROW AWAY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
