'Scratch' definitions:
Definition of 'scratch'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
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Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
noun
A competitor who has withdrawn from competition
noun
A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game [syn: start, starting line, scratch, scratch line]
noun
Dry mash for poultry [syn: chicken feed, scratch]
noun
A harsh noise made by scraping; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her" [syn: scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching]
noun
noun
(golf) a handicap of zero strokes; "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"
noun
verb
verb
Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of [syn: scratch, scrape, scratch up]
verb
Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!" [syn: rub, scratch, itch]
verb
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill" [syn: cancel, call off, scratch, scrub]
verb
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark" [syn: strike, scratch, expunge, excise]
verb
Gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" [syn: scrape, scrape up, scratch, come up]
verb
Definition of 'Scratch'
From: GCIDE
- Scratch \Scratch\, v. i.
- 1. To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches. [1913 Webster]
- Dull, tame things, . . . that will neither bite nor scratch. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Billiards) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scratch'
From: GCIDE
- Scratch \Scratch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scratched; p. pr. & vb. n. Scratching.] [OE. cracchen (perhaps influenced by OE. scratten to scratch); cf. OHG. chrazz[=o]n, G. kratzen, OD. kratsen, kretsen, D. krassen, Sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to rake, to scratch, Dan. kradse to scratch, to scrape, Icel. krota to engrave. Cf. Grate to rub.]
- 1. To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass. --Grew. [1913 Webster]
- Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head, and bite your nails. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. "Scratch out a pamphlet." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow. [1913 Webster]
- To scratch a ticket, to cancel one or more names of candidates on a party ballot; to refuse to vote the party ticket in its entirety. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scratch'
From: GCIDE
- Scratch \Scratch\, n.
- 1. A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision. [1913 Webster]
- The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work. --Moxon. [1913 Webster]
- These nails with scratches deform my breast. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Pugilistic Matches) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. [Cant] --Grose. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. (Far.) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. --Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser). [1913 Webster]
- 4. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Billiards) (a) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke. [Cant, U. S.] (b) a shot which results in a penalty, such as dropping the cue ball in a pocket without hitting another ball. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 6. In various sports, the line from which the start is made, except in the case of contestants receiving a distance handicap. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Scratch cradle. See Cratch cradle, under Cratch.
- Scratch grass (Bot.), a climbing knotweed ({Polygonum sagittatum}) with a square stem beset with fine recurved prickles along the angles.
- Scratch wig. Same as Scratch, 4, above. --Thackeray.
- start from scratch to start (again) from the very beginning; also, to start without resources. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scratch'
From: GCIDE
- Scratch \Scratch\, a. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Scratch race, one without restrictions regarding the entrance of competitors; also, one for which the competitors are chosen by lot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scratch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablation,
- abort,
- abrade,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- adequate,
- anamorphosis,
- attrition,
- autolithograph,
- bad likeness,
- barbouillage,
- bark,
- barley,
- be a printmaker,
- belch,
- bezel,
- bird seed,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- blare,
- blat,
- blaze,
- blaze a trail,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- bloody,
- blot,
- blot out,
- blotch,
- bore,
- botch,
- bran,
- brand,
- bray,
- bread,
- break,
- bruise,
- buffing,
- bulla,
- burlesque,
- burn,
- burnishing,
- burr,
- burrow,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- canal,
- canalize,
- cancel,
- caricature,
- cartoon,
- carve,
- cash,
- caste mark,
- casual,
- cat food,
- caw,
- cease,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- character,
- charcoal,
- chase,
- check,
- check off,
- checkmark,
- chicken feed,
- chink,
- chip,
- chips,
- chirr,
- chisel,
- chiseling,
- chop,
- cicatrix,
- cicatrize,
- clang,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clash,
- claw,
- close,
- coin,
- color,
- comedo,
- competent,
- competitive,
- conclude,
- concussion,
- copy,
- corn,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- crack,
- crackle,
- cranny,
- crater,
- craunch,
- crayon,
- craze,
- crease,
- cribble,
- croak,
- cross out,
- cross-hatching,
- crosshatch,
- crump,
- crunch,
- cursoriness,
- cut,
- dado,
- damage,
- dapple,
- dash,
- dash off,
- daub,
- defacement,
- defect,
- define,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- dele,
- delete,
- delimit,
- delineate,
- delve,
- demarcate,
- demitint,
- depict,
- design,
- determine,
- detrition,
- diagram,
- dig,
- dig out,
- dike,
- discolor,
- discoloration,
- disfiguration,
- disfigurement,
- distortion,
- ditch,
- do double duty,
- dog food,
- doodle,
- dot,
- dough,
- draft,
- draw,
- dredge,
- dressing,
- drill,
- drive,
- earmark,
- eatage,
- efface,
- eliminate,
- elucubrate,
- enchase,
- end,
- engrave,
- engravement,
- engraving,
- ensilage,
- epidermis,
- erase,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- etch,
- etching,
- excavate,
- exclude,
- expunge,
- extempore,
- exteriority,
- fault,
- feed,
- filing,
- finish,
- finish up,
- flash burn,
- flaw,
- fleck,
- flick,
- flute,
- fluting,
- fodder,
- forage,
- fracture,
- fray,
- frazzle,
- freckle,
- fret,
- fretting,
- furrow,
- gall,
- galling,
- gash,
- gem-engraving,
- glass-cutting,
- gloss,
- glyptic,
- goffer,
- good enough,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- grain,
- grate,
- grave,
- graving,
- graze,
- grazing,
- greenbacks,
- grind,
- grinding,
- groan,
- groove,
- growl,
- grub,
- grumble,
- gully,
- hack,
- half tint,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- hatch,
- hatching,
- hay,
- hemangioma,
- hen scratches,
- hen tracks,
- hickey,
- hit the ball,
- hurried,
- hurt,
- hustle,
- impress,
- imprint,
- impromptu,
- incise,
- incision,
- informal,
- injure,
- injury,
- inscribe,
- inscript,
- inscription,
- itch,
- jack,
- jangle,
- jar,
- jot,
- keloid,
- kink,
- lacerate,
- laceration,
- lentigo,
- lesion,
- limation,
- limn,
- line,
- lining,
- lithograph,
- lower,
- lucubrate,
- macula,
- maim,
- make a mark,
- make mincemeat of,
- make prints,
- makeshift,
- mar,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- marking,
- mash,
- maul,
- mazuma,
- meal,
- mere scratch,
- microgroove,
- milium,
- mine,
- misdraw,
- mispaint,
- mole,
- mortal wound,
- mottle,
- mutilate,
- mutilation,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- nick,
- no depth,
- no water,
- notch,
- oats,
- obliterate,
- off the cuff,
- overwork,
- paint,
- paint a picture,
- parody,
- pasturage,
- pasture,
- patch,
- pattes de mouche,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- perorate,
- pet food,
- picture,
- picturize,
- pierce,
- pimple,
- pinprick,
- pit,
- pleat,
- plow,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- point,
- polishing,
- polka dot,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- portray,
- pothookery,
- pothooks,
- pothooks and hangers,
- pour it on,
- prick,
- prickle,
- print,
- provender,
- punch,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- pustule,
- quarry,
- rabbet,
- rasp,
- rasping,
- raze,
- rend,
- rent,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- rift,
- rind,
- rip,
- rough,
- rub,
- rub off,
- rub out,
- rubbing away,
- ruck,
- rule out,
- run,
- rupture,
- rut,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- sap,
- satisfactory,
- savage,
- scab,
- scald,
- scar,
- scarification,
- scarify,
- scoop,
- scoop out,
- scorch,
- score,
- scoring,
- scotch,
- scouring,
- scrabble,
- scranch,
- scrap,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch feed,
- scratch out,
- scratching,
- scrawl,
- scribble,
- scribbling,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scrunch,
- scuff,
- sculpture,
- scumble,
- seal,
- seam,
- sebaceous cyst,
- second-degree burn,
- shade,
- shallowness,
- shining,
- shoaliness,
- shovel,
- silage,
- sink,
- sketch,
- skin,
- slash,
- slashing,
- slave,
- slightness,
- slit,
- slops,
- smoothing,
- snarl,
- snore,
- sore,
- spade,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- split,
- splotch,
- sponge,
- sponge out,
- spot,
- sprain,
- stab,
- stab wound,
- stain,
- stamp,
- stencil,
- stick,
- stigma,
- stigmatize,
- sting,
- stipple,
- stippling,
- stop,
- strain,
- straw,
- strawberry mark,
- streak,
- stria,
- striate,
- striation,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- stripe,
- sty,
- sufficient,
- sulcation,
- sulcus,
- superficiality,
- superficies,
- surface,
- sweat,
- swill,
- tattoo,
- tattoo mark,
- tear,
- terminate,
- third-degree burn,
- thrill,
- tick,
- tick off,
- tingle,
- tint,
- tittle,
- tool,
- tooling,
- trace,
- track,
- trauma,
- traumatize,
- travesty,
- trench,
- triviality,
- trough,
- tunnel,
- twang,
- twist,
- type-cutting,
- underline,
- underscore,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- up to scratch,
- up to snuff,
- veneer,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- wampum,
- warp,
- wart,
- watermark,
- weal,
- wear,
- wearing away,
- well-worn groove,
- welt,
- wen,
- wheat,
- whitehead,
- wind up,
- wipe out,
- work hard,
- work late,
- work overtime,
- wound,
- wounds immedicable,
- wrench,
- wrinkle
Words containing 'Scratch'
- Scratched,
- Scratching,
- from scratch,
- scratch off,
- scratch out,
- scratch up,
- Scratch coat,
- Scratch cradle,
- Scratch grass,
- Scratch hit,
- Scratch player,
- Scratch race,
- Scratch runner,
- Scratch wig,
- Scratched ticket,
- To come to the scratch,
- To scratch a ticket,
- back scratching,
- chicken scratch,
- scraped scratched,
- scratch along,
- scratch awl,
- scratch line,
- scratch pad,
- scratch paper,
- scratch sheet,
- scratch test,
- scratch the surface,
- start from scratch,
- cat scratch disease