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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.

2. To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

3. 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.

4. 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.




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ablation craze good enough pattes de mouche slash
abort crease gouge pencil slashing
abrade cribble gouge out pepper slave
abrasion croak grain perorate slightness
abrasive cross out grate pet food slit
adequate cross-hatching grave picture slops
anamorphosis crosshatch graving picturize smoothing
attrition crump graze pierce snarl
autolithograph crunch grazing pimple snore
bad likeness cursoriness greenbacks pinprick sore
barbouillage cut grind pit spade
bark dado grinding pleat speck
barley damage groan plow speckle
be a printmaker dapple groove pock splash
belch dash growl pockmark split
bezel dash off grub point splotch
bird seed daub grumble polishing sponge
birthmark defacement gully polka dot sponge out
blackhead defect hack port-wine mark spot
blare define half tint port-wine stain sprain
blat deformation haphazard portray stab
blaze deformity hasty pothookery stab wound
blaze a trail dele hatch pothooks stain
bleb delete hatching pothooks and hangers stamp
blemish delimit hay pour it on stencil
blister delineate hemangioma prick stick
bloody delve hen scratches prickle stigma
blot demarcate hen tracks print stigmatize
blot out demitint hickey provender sting
blotch depict hit the ball punch stipple
bore design hurried punctuate stippling
botch determine hurt puncture stop
bran detrition hustle pustule strain
brand diagram impress quarry straw
bray dig imprint rabbet strawberry mark
bread dig out impromptu rasp streak
break dike incise rasping stria
bruise discolor incision raze striate
buffing discoloration informal rend striation
bulla disfiguration injure rent strike off
burlesque disfigurement injury resolve strike out
burn distortion inscribe riddle stripe
burnishing ditch inscript rifle sty
burr do double duty inscription rifling sufficient
burrow dog food itch rift sulcation
buzz doodle jack rind sulcus
cackle dot jangle rip superficiality
canal dough jar rough superficies
canalize draft jot rub surface
cancel draw keloid rub off sweat
caricature dredge kink rub out swill
cartoon dressing lacerate rubbing away tattoo
carve drill laceration ruck tattoo mark
cash drive lentigo rule out tear
caste mark earmark lesion run terminate
casual eatage limation rupture third-degree burn
cat food efface limn rut thrill
caw eliminate line sandblasting tick
cease elucubrate lining sanding tick off
chafe enchase lithograph sap tingle
chafing end lower satisfactory tint
chalk engrave lucubrate savage tittle
chalk up engravement macula scab tool
chamfer engraving maim scald tooling
channel ensilage make a mark scar trace
character epidermis make mincemeat of scarification track
charcoal erase make prints scarify trauma
chase erasure makeshift scoop traumatize
check erosion mar scoop out travesty
check off etch mark scorch trench
checkmark etching mark off score triviality
chicken feed excavate mark out scoring trough
chink exclude marking scotch tunnel
chip expunge mash scouring twang
chips extempore maul scrabble twist
chirr exteriority mazuma scranch type-cutting
chisel fault meal scrap underline
chiseling feed mere scratch scrape underscore
chop filing microgroove scraping unplanned
cicatrix finish milium scratch feed unpremeditated
cicatrize finish up mine scratch out unprepared
clang flash burn misdraw scratching up to scratch
clangor flaw mispaint scrawl up to snuff
clank fleck mole scribble veneer
clash flick mortal wound scribbling verruca
claw flute mottle scrub vesicle
close fluting mutilate scrubbing wale
coin fodder mutilation scrunch wampum
color forage needle scar scuff warp
comedo fracture nevus sculpture wart
competent fray nick scumble watermark
competitive frazzle no depth seal weal
conclude freckle no water seam wear
concussion fret notch sebaceous cyst wearing away
copy fretting oats second-degree burn well-worn groove
corn furrow obliterate shade welt
corrugate gall off the cuff shallowness wen
corrugation galling overwork shining wheat
crack gash paint shoaliness whitehead
crackle gem-engraving paint a picture shovel wind up
cranny glass-cutting parody silage wipe out
crater gloss pasturage sink work hard
craunch glyptic pasture sketch work late
crayon goffer patch skin work overtime