DEF: to move with urgency or panic.
EX: 1. The product has become so popular that many companies are scrambling to produce it 2. The runners scrambled off the starting line.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
scramble (verb)intransitive verb
1.
a) to move with urgency or panic
b) to move or climb hastily on all fours
2.
a) to struggle eagerly or unceremoniously for possession of something - scramble for front seats
b) to get or gather something with difficulty or in irregular ways - scramble for a living
3.
to spread or grow irregularly - sprawl straggle
4.
to take off quickly in response to an alert
5.
transitive verb
of a football quarterback to run with the ball after the pass protection breaks down
1.
to collect by - scrambling
2.
a) to toss or mix together - jumble
b) to prepare (eggs) by stirring during frying
3.
to cause or order (a fighter-interceptor group) to scramble
4.
to disarrange the elements of a transmission (as a telephone or television signal) in order to make unintelligible to interception
1.
the act or an instance of - scrambling
2.
a disordered mass - jumble a…scramble of patterns and textures Vogue
3.
a rapid emergency takeoff of fighter-interceptor planes
