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scrapie

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈskɹeɪpi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -eɪpi

1

noun

Meaning 1

A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: animal disease

History

Etymology

From scrape + -ie, from the tendency of affected animals to scrape themselves against solid objects.

Across languages

Translations

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: قعاص الغنم — degenerative prion disease
  • Chinese Mandarin: 痒病 (yǎngbìng) — degenerative prion disease
  • Dutch: schuurziekte — degenerative prion disease
  • Esperanto: ŝaftremo — degenerative prion disease
  • Finnish: scrapie — degenerative prion disease
  • Finnish: skrapi — degenerative prion disease
  • Finnish: lampaan kutkatauti — degenerative prion disease
  • French: tremblante du mouton — degenerative prion disease
  • Galician: teo — degenerative prion disease
  • Galician: rebullón — degenerative prion disease
  • Galician: tortón — degenerative prion disease
  • German: Traberkrankheit — degenerative prion disease
  • German: Scrapie — degenerative prion disease
  • Hebrew: סקרייפי — degenerative prion disease
  • Icelandic: riða — degenerative prion disease
  • Irish: scráibeach — degenerative prion disease
  • Italian: scrapie — degenerative prion disease
  • Japanese: スクレイピー (sukureipī) — degenerative prion disease
  • Korean: 진전병 (jinjeonbyeong) — degenerative prion disease
  • Portuguese: scrapie — degenerative prion disease
  • Russian: скре́йпи (skréjpi) — degenerative prion disease
  • Russian: почесу́ха (počesúxa) — degenerative prion disease
  • Slovene: praskavec — degenerative prion disease
  • Spanish: prurito lumbar — degenerative prion disease