verb
- To move hurriedly.
- usage: "The friend scrambled after them"
- synonyms: scramble
- Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.
- Bring into random order.
- synonyms: scramble, jumble, throw together
- Stir vigorously.
- usage: "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream"
- Make unintelligible.
- usage: "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it"
- synonyms: scramble
adjective
- Thrown together in a disorderly fashion.
- usage: "a scrambled plan of action"
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