Definitions for Scratch

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Scratch scratch

Spelling: [skrach]

IPA: /skrætʃ/

Scratch is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Scratch (acchrst).

Definitions for Scratch

noun

1. a slight injury, mar, or mark, usually thin and shallow, caused by scratching:
2. a rough mark made by a pen, pencil, etc.; scrawl.
3. an act of scratching.
4. the slight grating sound caused by scratching.
5. the starting place, starting time, or status of a competitor in a handicap who has no allowance and no penalty.
6. Billiards, Pool. a shot resulting in a penalty, especially a pocketing of the cue ball without hitting the object ball. a fluke or lucky shot.
7. (in certain card games) a score of zero; nothing.
8. Baseball. scratch hit.
9. scratch wig.
10. Slang. money; cash.
11. Old Scratch; Satan.

Idioms

1. from scratch, from the very beginning or starting point. from nothing; without resources:
2. up to scratch, in conformity with a certain standard; adequate; satisfactory:

adjective

1. used for hasty writing, notes, etc.:
2. without any allowance, penalty, or handicap, as a competitor or contestant.
3. Informal. done by or dependent on chance:
4. Informal. gathered hastily and indiscriminately:
5. done or made from scratch:

verb (used with object)

1. to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough:
2. to dig, scrape, or tear (something) out or off with or as if with the nails, claws, etc.:
3. to rub or scrape slightly, as with the fingernails, to relieve itching.
4. to rub or draw along a rough, grating surface:
5. to erase, cancel, strike out, or eliminate (a name, something written, etc.) by or as if by drawing a line through it (often followed by out):
6. to withdraw (an entry) from a race or competition.
7. U.S. Politics. to divide (one's vote) though predominantly supporting one political party or faction. to strike out or reject a particular name or names on (a party ticket) in voting.
8. to write or draw by scraping or cutting the lines into a surface:
9. to manipulate (a phonograph record) back and forth under the stylus to produce rhythmic sounds.

verb (used without object)

1. to use the nails, claws, etc., for tearing, digging, etc.
2. to relieve itching by rubbing or scraping lightly, as with the fingernails.
3. to make a slight grating noise, as a pen.
4. to earn a living or to manage in any respect with great difficulty:
5. to withdraw or be withdrawn from a contest or competition.
6. (in certain card games) to make no score; earn no points.
7. Billiards, Pool. to make a shot that results in a penalty, especially to pocket the cue ball without hitting the object ball.

Origin of Scratch

1425-75; late Middle English scracche (v.), blend of Middle English scratte to scratch, and cracche to scratch; cognate with Middle Dutch cratsen

Examples for Scratch

Andre Torres, the former editor of scratch Magazine, which began as an imprint of XXL, remembers similar hostile situations.

“They are basically telling the FSA that they are not part of their plans and they are going to start from scratch,” he said.

Two horses had been killed under him, and he had not received so much as a scratch.

Some scratch a little deeper than those who aren't so skilled or so strong.

Starting from scratch is never easy—and the team of journalists had serious competitors in Russia's state-owned media.

“scratch a liberal, find a fascist every time,” Woods tweeted in April.

“In the past, my goal was to have you scratch your head and then maybe nod it,” she says.

She could scratch, kick, and bite—and stab too; but for stabbing she wanted a knife.

He was furious, and began to scratch the thick wooden posts.

He made of himself but a cock, set for a while on the world's heap to scratch and pick.