1. scramble - Noun
2. scramble - Verb
3. scramble - Interjection
To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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.
To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth.
To prepare (eggs) as a dish for the table, by stirring the yolks and whites together while cooking.
The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering.
The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. Sydney Smith
Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together. Elizabeth Hardwick
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. Og Mandino
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end. Horace
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214. Melody Beattie
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn