Similar words: scratch, scratchy, scratching, from scratch, matched, hatched, dispatched, ratchet. Meaning: [skrætʃ] 
adj. having surface damage.
adj. having surface damage. 211. Milo Pressman scratched his scraggly goatee and unshaven cheek. "A lot of heroin still comes out of Marseilles.
212. The ledge, where I placed my candle, had a few mildewed books piled up in one corner; and it was covered with writing scratched on the paint.
213. He scratched the insect bite on his leg ( with his nails ).
214. He found he did not hate the Germans, who now scratched for food in bombed-out Nuremberg and fought for the cigarette-ends he threw out of his jeep.
215. The man, free as a hoyden, ran to a chestnut tree and scratched back on bark.
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