Definition of Scratch
Verb: scratch skrach
- Cause friction
"my sweater scratches";
- rub, fray, fret, chafe
- Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- scrape, scratch up
- Scrape with the fingers as if to relieve itching
"Don't scratch your insect bites!";
- rub, itch
- Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
"scratch that meeting--the chair is ill";
- cancel, call off, scrub
- Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
"scratch that remark";
- strike, expunge, excise
- Gather (money or other resources) together over time
"they scratched a meagre living";
- scrape, scrape up, come up
- Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
"the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree";
- engrave, grave, inscribe
- An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- abrasion, scrape, excoriation
- A depression scratched or carved into a surface
- incision, prick, slit, dent
- Informal term for money
- boodle, bread, cabbage [US], clams [US], dinero [N. Amer], dough, gelt, kale [US], lettuce [US], lolly [Brit], lucre, loot, moolah [N. Amer], pelf [archaic], shekels, simoleons [US], sugar, wampum [N. Amer], wonga [Brit], brass [Brit], moola [N. Amer], mazuma [US], dosh [Brit]
- A competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- start, starting line, scratch line
- Dry mash for poultry
- chicken feed
- A harsh noise made by scraping
- scrape, scraping, scratching
- Poor handwriting
- scribble, scrawl, cacography
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
"a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"
- An indication of damage
- scrape, scar, mark
- Put together quickly from whatever is available
- (computing) for testing or temporary use
"store the values in a scratch file"
See also:
scrapyard
scratchboard
Anagrams containing the word scratch