scrambled

3 definitions found

scrambled - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Scramble \Scram"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrambled; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Scrambling.] [Freq. of Prov. E. scramb to rake
     together with the hands, or of scramp to snatch at. cf.
     Scrabble.]
     1. To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to
        scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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     2. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon
        the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something;
        to catch rudely at what is desired.
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              Of other care they little reckoning make,
              Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
                                                    --Milton.
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scrambled - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  scrambled
      adj 1: thrown together in a disorderly fashion; "a scrambled
             plan of action"

scrambled - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrambled":
     aimless, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious,
     beyond one, blended, combined, complex, complicated, composite,
     compound, compounded, conglomerate, crabbed, cramp, dappled,
     designless, difficult, eclectic, empty, equivocal, fifty-fifty,
     garbled, half-and-half, hard, hard to understand, heterogeneous,
     importless, inane, indiscriminate, insignificant, intricate,
     ironic, jumbled, knotty, many-sided, meaningless, medley, mingled,
     miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multinational,
     multiracial, nonconnotative, nondenotative, null, obfuscated,
     obscure, obscured, overtechnical, patchy, perplexed, phatic,
     pluralistic, promiscuous, purportless, purposeless, senseless,
     syncretic, thrown together, tough, unmeaning, unsignificant,
     varied