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Scratch

noun

1.

An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off. Synonyms: abrasion, excoriation, scrape.

2.

A depression scratched or carved into a surface. Synonyms: dent, incision, prick, slit.

3.

Informal terms for money. Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum.

4.

A competitor who has withdrawn from competition.

5.

A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game. Synonyms: scratch line, start, starting line.

6.

Dry mash for poultry. Synonym: chicken feed.

7.

A harsh noise made by scraping. Synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratching.

8.

Poor handwriting. Synonyms: cacography, scrawl, scribble.

9.

(golf) a handicap of zero strokes.

10.

An indication of damage. Synonyms: mark, scar, scrape.

verb

(past & past part. scratched; pres. part. scratching)

1.

Cause friction. Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub.

2.

Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of. Synonyms: scrape, scratch up.

3.

Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching. Synonyms: itch, rub.

4.

Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled. Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub. "Cancel the dinner party" , "We had to scrub our vacation plans" , "Scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"

5.

Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line. Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike. "Scratch that remark"

6.

Gather (money or other resources) together over time. Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up. "They scratched a meager living"

7.

Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface. Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe. "Engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's" , "The lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"

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"Scratch" Quotes from Famous Books

... you," screamed Dorothy, springing like a tigress from her chair. "Not another word from you or I will—I will scratch you. I will kill some one. Don't speak to me. Can't you see that I am trying to calm myself for an interview with father? An angry brain is full of blunders. I want to make none. I will settle this affair with father. No one else, not even you, Aunt ...

— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major

... in his heartiest element. Men would make a scratch team at the sound of his voice, just to be led by him as captain. No mean field or batsman, he excelled in bowling. His resource in taking wickets was only equalled by the good temper with which adversaries ...

— Memoir of William Watts McNair • J. E. Howard

... ascended, but he did not find his dearest Rapunzel above, but the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks. "Aha!" she cried mockingly, "Thou wouldst fetch thy dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out thy eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to thee; thou wilt never see her more." The King's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell, pierced his eyes. Then ...

— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers

... garden as I followed my own New England road. The flower-plots were in gay bloom all along the way; almost every house had some flowers before it, sometimes carefully fenced about by stakes and barrel staves from the miscreant hens and chickens which lurked everywhere, and liked a good scratch and fluffing in soft earth this year as well as any other. The world seemed full of young life. There were calves tethered in pleasant shady spots, and puppies and kittens adventuring from the doorways. ...

— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... that the finest sense of all—the joyous sense of bodily well-being—comes only with exercises and restraints and fine living. There I think lies the way of my disposition. I do not want to live in the sensual sty, but I also do not want to scratch in the ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

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