verb
strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
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scratch out my name on that list
• Syn: ↑cut out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Something ——s something
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Somebody ——s something PP
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ˌscratch ˈout [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they scratch out he/she/it scratches out present participle scratching out past tense scratched out past participle scratched out] phrasal verb
to remove a word from a sentence or something from a list by drawing a line through it
Main entry: scratch
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scratch out [phrasal verb]
scratch (something) out or scratch out (something) : to draw a line through (something that is written down)
I scratched out the mistake.
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Main Entry: ↑scratch
Useful english dictionary. 2012.