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The synonyms of “Scratch” are: chafe, fray, fret, rub, engrave, grave, inscribe, excise, expunge, strike, itch, come up, scrape, scrape up, call off, cancel, scrub, scratch up, score, abrade, roughen, scuff, scuff up, lacerate, groove, gash, incise, gouge, graze, rasp, skin, rub raw, cut, bark, strip, flay, wound, claw, claw at, tear at, search, hunt, hunt around, cast about, cast round, cast around, rummage, rummage around, forage, forage about, poke about, poke around, scrabble, root, root around, scavenge, fish about, fish around, rake around, feel around, grope, nose about, nose round, nose around, ferret, ferret about, ferret around, scrimp, cross out, strike out, score out, delete, erase, remove, strike off, eliminate, obliterate, withdraw, pull out, pull out of, back out, back out of, bow out, bow out of, stand down, give up, leave, quit, abandon, scrap, drop, scratch line, start, starting line, dent, incision, prick, slit, boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum, mark, scar, chicken feed, scraping, scratching, abrasion, excoriation, cacography, scrawl, scribble, line, laceration, grate, grating, creak, creaking, grind, grinding, jar, rasping, rubbing, squeak, screech, screeching, cash, ready money
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scratch” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| abrasion | The process of scraping or wearing something away. There were cuts and abrasions to the lips and jaw. |
| boodle | Informal terms for money. He spent 30 million of his own boodle trying to buy a Senate seat. |
| bread | The bread or wafer used in the Eucharist. A bread roll. |
| cabbage | The leaves of cabbage eaten as a vegetable. I was becoming a 27 year old cabbage. |
| cacography | Poor handwriting. |
| cash | Prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check. A discount for cash. |
| chicken feed | The flesh of a chicken used for food. |
| clams | Flesh of either hard shell or soft shell clams. |
| creak | A harsh scraping or squeaking sound. The creak of the floorboards gave him away. |
| creaking | A squeaking sound. We could hear the creaking of the deteriorating wood. |
| cut | A piece of meat cut from a carcass. His cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels. |
| dent | A depression scratched or carved into a surface. It made a dent in my bank account. |
| dinero | Informal terms for money. Their pockets full of dinero. |
| dough | Informal terms for money. Add water to the flour and mix to a manageable dough. |
| excoriation | An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off. |
| gelt | Informal terms for money. |
| gouge | An indentation or groove made by gouging. |
| grate | A harsh rasping sound made by scraping something. |
| grating | Optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum. |
| graze | A superficial abrasion. |
| grind | The act of grinding to a powder or dust. The slow grind of the US legal system. |
| grinding | A harsh and strident sound as of the grinding of gears. Vegetable grindings clogged the drain. |
| groove | A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process such as erosion or by a tool as e g a groove in a phonograph record. Her vocals drift delicately across a soaring soul groove. |
| incision | A surgical cut made in skin or flesh. A block of marble delicately decorated with incisions. |
| jar | The quantity contained in a jar. He drank a jar of beer. |
| kale | A hardy cabbage of a variety which produces erect stems with large leaves and no compact head. |
| laceration | The act of lacerating. His laceration of his fellow Democrat. |
| lettuce | Used in names of other plants with edible green leaves e g lamb s lettuce sea lettuce. |
| line | Space for one line of print one column wide and 1 14 inch deep used to measure advertising. We follow the history of a family through the male line. |
| lolly | A lollipop or ice lolly. You ve done brilliantly raising all that lovely lolly. |
| loot | Private property taken from an enemy in war. The rooms were stuffed with the loot from Francis s expeditions into Italy. |
| lucre | The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses. Officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre. |
| mark | A marking that consists of lines that cross each other. The owner s mark was on all the sheep. |
| moolah | Informal terms for money. |
| pelf | Informal terms for money. Damnation dog thee and thy wretched pelf. |
| rasp | Uttering in an irritated tone. The rasp of the engine. |
| rasping | Uttering in an irritated tone. |
| ready money | Poised for action. |
| rub | The act of rubbing or wiping. That was the rub she had not cared enough. |
| rubbing | Representation consisting of a copy as of an engraving made by laying paper over something and rubbing it with charcoal. Dab at the stain vigorous rubbing could damage the carpet. |
| scar | A mark left at the point of separation of a leaf, frond, or other part from a plant. Max could see scars of the blast. |
| score | A set of twenty members. Doyle s success brought imitators by the score. |
| scrape | A place where soil has been scraped away especially a shallow hollow formed in the ground by a bird during a courtship display or for nesting. There was a long shallow scrape on his shin. |
| scraping | A small amount of something that has been obtained by scraping it from a surface. The scraping of the spoon in the bowl. |
| scratch line | Poor handwriting. |
| scratching | A harsh noise made by scraping. Scratching temporarily relieves an itch but it often makes a skin problem worse. |
| scrawl | An example of hurried, careless writing. Reams and reams of handwritten scrawl. |
| screech | A loud, harsh, piercing cry. A screech of brakes. |
| screeching | A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry. He ducked at the screechings of shells. |
| scribble | Poor handwriting. Illegible scribbles. |
| scuff | The act of scuffing scraping or dragging the feet. Dark colours don t show scuffs. |
| shekels | Informal terms for money. |
| simoleons | Informal terms for money. |
| slit | A depression scratched or carved into a surface. Make a slit in the stem under a bud. |
| squeak | A short high-pitched noise. The door opened with a slight squeak. |
| start | The act of starting something. He had a ninety minute start on them. |
| starting line | A turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning. |
| sugar | A sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants especially sugar cane and sugar beet consisting essentially of sucrose and used as a sweetener in food and drink. I ll have mine black with two sugars. |
| wampum | Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency. Strings of wampum. |
| wound | The act of inflicting a wound. A knife wound. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scratch” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| abandon | Forsake, leave behind. Fans invaded the pitch and the match was abandoned. |
| abrade | Scrape or wear away by friction or erosion. It was a landscape slowly abraded by a fine stinging dust. |
| back out | Give support or one’s approval to. |
| back out of | Be in back of. |
| bark | Of a dog fox or seal give a bark. He began barking out his orders. |
| bow out | Bend one’s knee or body, or lower one’s head. |
| bow out of | Bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting. |
| call off | Order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role. |
| cancel | Annul or revoke (a formal arrangement which is in effect. I intend to cancel your debt to me. |
| cast about | Formulate in a particular style or language. |
| cast around | Form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold. |
| cast round | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. |
| chafe | Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations. I chafed her feet and wrapped the blanket round her. |
| claw | Attack as if with claws. She was determined to claw her way out of poverty and find fame. |
| claw at | Attack as if with claws. |
| come up | Be found or available. |
| cross out | Fold so as to resemble a cross. |
| cut | Cut off the testicles of male animals such as horses. They cut her in public. |
| delete | Remove (data) from a computer’s memory. The passage was deleted. |
| drop | Let or cause to fall in drops. Pre tax profits dropped by 37 per cent. |
| eliminate | Eliminate from the body. Let s eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics. |
| engrave | Be permanently fixed in (one’s memory or mind. The image would be forever engraved in his memory. |
| erase | Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information. The file has been erased from the hard disk. |
| excise | Levy an excise tax on. The surgeon excised the tumor. |
| expunge | Obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant. The kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory. |
| feel around | Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state. |
| ferret | Clear a hole or area of ground of rabbits with ferrets. I could show you how to ferret for rabbits. |
| ferret about | Hunt with ferrets. |
| ferret around | Search and discover through persistent investigation. |
| fish about | Seek indirectly. |
| fish around | Seek indirectly. |
| flay | Whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove their skin. She flayed the white skin from the flesh. |
| forage | (of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions. The birds forage for aquatic invertebrates insects and seeds. |
| forage about | Wander and feed. |
| fray | Wear away by rubbing. The friction frayed the sleeve. |
| fret | Provide a musical instrument with frets. What shape the sea has fretted into the land. |
| give up | Estimate the duration or outcome of something. |
| gouge | Cut or force something out roughly or brutally. The channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water. |
| grave | Shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it. Engraved the trophy cup with the winner s name. |
| graze | Put (cattle, sheep, etc.) to feed on grassland. We grazed up and down the TV channels. |
| groove | Make a groove in or provide with a groove. Groove a vinyl record. |
| hunt | Use a hound or a horse for hunting. Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland. |
| hunt around | Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent. |
| incise | Cut (a mark or decoration) into a surface. Figures incised on upright stones. |
| inscribe | Mark (a surface or object) with characters. The memorial is inscribed with ten names. |
| itch | Cause to perceive an itch. The bite itched like crazy. |
| lacerate | Cut or tear irregularly. Her true venom seems reserved for the media itself as she lacerates our obsession with celebrity. |
| leave | Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking. She wants to leave. |
| nose about | Rub noses. |
| nose around | Search or inquire in a meddlesome way. |
| nose round | Push or move with the nose. |
| obliterate | Do away with completely, without leaving a trace. The memory was so painful that he obliterated it from his mind. |
| poke about | Search or inquire in a meddlesome way. |
| poke around | Poke or thrust abruptly. |
| pull out | Bring take or pull out of a container or from under a cover. |
| pull out of | Bring take or pull out of a container or from under a cover. |
| quit | Resign from (a job. The landlord issued a notice to quit. |
| rake around | Move through with or as if with a rake. |
| rasp | Scrape with a rasp. The horse has to be sedated for its teeth to be rasped. |
| remove | Remove from a position or an office. Remove a wrapper. |
| root | Take root and begin to grow. We explained how to manually root almost any Android device. |
| root around | Plant by the roots. |
| roughen | Make rough or rougher. Roughen the surfaces so they will stick to each other. |
| rub | Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching. Rub my hands. |
| rub raw | Move over something with pressure. |
| rummage | Find (something) by rummaging. Mick rummaged up his skateboard. |
| rummage around | Search haphazardly. |
| scavenge | Remove (combustion products) from an internal combustion engine cylinder on the return stroke of the piston. People sell junk scavenged from the garbage. |
| score | Decide on the scores to be awarded in a match or competition. The aim should be to score between fifty and one hundred mitotic cells. |
| score out | Induce to have sex. |
| scrabble | Feel searchingly. I had to scrabble around to find this apartment. |
| scrap | Discard or remove from service a redundant old or inoperative vehicle vessel or machine especially so as to convert it to scrap metal. Scrap the old airplane and sell the parts. |
| scrape | Make (a hollow) by scraping away soil or rock. She scraped the mud off her shoes. |
| scrape up | Scratch repeatedly. |
| scratch up | Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of. |
| scrimp | Be thrifty or parsimonious; economize. I have scrimped and saved to give you a good education. |
| scrub | Remove dirt by rubbing hard. The first two races had to be scrubbed because of blustery winds and rough seas. |
| scuff | Mar by scuffing. For kids who play rough shoes that won t scuff. |
| scuff up | Raise. |
| search | Look for information in a database or the World Wide Web using a search engine. The guards searched him for weapons. |
| skin | Of a wound form new skin. We had a few beers and then we skinned up. |
| stand down | Remain inactive or immobile. |
| strike | Undertake strike action against an employer. Strike a balance. |
| strike off | Hit against; come into sudden contact with. |
| strike out | Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon. |
| tear at | Strip of feathers. |
| withdraw | Withdraw from active participation. He failed to withdraw his remarks and apologize. |
| wound | Inflict a wound on. You really wounded his pride when you turned him down. |
| abrade | Wear away. It was a landscape slowly abraded by a fine stinging dust. |
| abrasion | An area damaged by scraping or wearing away. There were cuts and abrasions to the lips and jaw. |
| awl | A small pointed tool used for piercing holes, especially in leather. |
| bingo | A game in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off all their numbers. A bingo hall. |
| bowdlerize | Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. Every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized. |
| chafe | Rub (a part of the body) to restore warmth or sensation. The collar chafed his neck. |
| delete | (of a section of genetic code, or its product) be lost or excised from a nucleic acid or protein sequence. If one important gene is deleted from an animal s DNA other genes can stand in. |
| dent | Mark with a dent. He hit a concrete bollard denting the wing. |
| erase | Remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or medium); delete (data) from a computer’s memory. The magic of the landscape erased all else from her mind. |
| etching | A print produced by the process of etching. Etchings of animals and wildflowers. |
| excise | Levy an excise tax on. The surgeon excised the tumor. |
| excoriate | Express strong disapproval of. The discharge is acrid and excoriates the skin of the nose. |
| expulsion | The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting. Oxytocin causes expulsion of milk from the lactating mammary gland. |
| expunge | Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line. The kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory. |
| expurgate | Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a text or account. Editors heavily expurgated the novel before its initial publication. |
| fray | (of a male deer) rub (a bush or small tree) with the head in order to remove the velvet from newly formed antlers, or to mark territory during the rut. Bucks mark their territory by fraying small trees. |
| grate | Reduce food to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater. Peel and roughly grate the carrots. |
| incision | A mark or decoration cut into a surface. A block of marble delicately decorated with incisions. |
| irritation | The psychological state of being irritated or annoyed. The minor irritations of life. |
| itch | A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation. An itch to write fiction. |
| itching | An irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch. |
| knife | Cut or move cleanly through something with a knife like action. The victim was knifed to death. |
| lottery | A situation whose success or outcome is governed by chance. The election was just a lottery to them. |
| nail | Attach something somewhere by means of nails. I guess they were indeed impressed nailed it. |
| rub | An act of rubbing. He rubbed at the earth on his jeans. |
| scar | Mark with a scar or scars. He is likely to be scarred for life after injuries to his face arms and legs. |
| scrape | A place where soil has been scraped away especially a shallow hollow formed in the ground by a bird during a courtship display or for nesting. Remove the green tops from the carrots and scrape them. |
| scratching | A harsh noise made by scraping. Scratching temporarily relieves an itch but it often makes a skin problem worse. |
| scrub | An act of scrubbing something or someone. She scrubbed his back. |
| slit | Form one s eyes into slits squint. Slit the throat of the victim. |
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