Definitions for scrawl

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Spelling: [skrawl]

IPA: /skrɔl/

Scrawl is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in scrawl (aclrsw).

Definitions for scrawl

noun

1. awkward, careless, or illegible handwriting.
2. something scrawled, as a letter or a note.

verb (used with object)

1. to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to write awkwardly, carelessly, or illegibly.

Origin of scrawl

1605-15; perhaps to be identified with late Middle English scraule to sprawl, crawl (blend of sprawl and crawl¹)

Examples for scrawl

My fear is that you will not be able to decipher the scrawl written so hastily.

I do not know whether you can read the scrawl I have written, but I cannot write any better.

Then, at last, he had gathered strength enough to scrawl these lines.

She had evidently never speculated on the meaning of the scrawl that had saved her.

The senator's son read the scrawl, and his face showed his disgust.

That's Joe's own scrawl, and there ain't a worse from this to himself.

You must not mind the badness of my scrawl: and let me hear from you.

Artists would use pen names and scrawl them across subway cars, walls, shops, and office buildings.

I felt the power in my fingernails to brand the earth with my own scrawl.

He preferred to scrawl his initials to any typewritten letter which I prepared.