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Scrambled means food that's mixed up and cooked together, like eggs with vegetables or meat. When people say their breakfast is scrambled, they mean it's not served neat, but instead all jumbled up.

We often use "scrambled" when talking about cooking, especially when making omelets or frittatas. You might be planning to make a delicious scrambled egg dish for the weekend and think, "I'll add some chopped bell peppers and mushrooms." Or, you could hear someone on a recipe show say, "For this Mexican-inspired breakfast, we're going to scramble some eggs with chorizo sausage." In general, when people talk about scrambling food, they mean mixing it all together and cooking until it's done.

How common is "scrambled"?

Word scrambled is considered rare in modern English.
It has a balanced usage among all categories: speech, fiction, newspapers and academic texts.

Definitions

verb

To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
(of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
Example: I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
To be quickly deployed in this manner.
To partake in motocross.
To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
To gather or collect by scrambling.
Example: to scramble up wealth
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 throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.

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adjective

Mixed, disordered, shuffled.
Example: a scrambled TV signal, requiring decryption
(of eggs) Beaten and cooked.
Example: He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.

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Real examples of "scrambled" in context

Gordon Ramsay Savagely Critiques Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

Interview

on this wing, what I want to do is make you perfect scrambled eggs. I just need you

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The ENTIRE HISTORY of Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls!

Entertainment

It was technically Fiddleford's laptop, but Fiddleford didn't remember because of how scrambled his mind had become over the years after leaving Ford's project.

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