Synonym: scratch, scribble. Similar words: crawl, crawling, scratch, scramble, unscramble, bawl, bawl out, flawless. Meaning: [skrɔːl] 
n. poor handwriting. v. write carelessly.
n. poor handwriting. v. write carelessly. (31) In 2004, Andre Geim at the University of Manchester made a pencil scrawl on a sheet of paper, then used a length of Sellotape to pull off the graphite deposits.
(32) Mari was a scrawl over the oasis piecemeal in a pallid, dead brick.
(33) I sighed in astonishment - the utter desolation depicted in that rude scrawl was overpowering.