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Found 3 hits - Term: scratched, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scratch \scratch\, v. t. imp.  p. p. scratched; p. pr.  vb.
   n. scratching. oe. cracchen perhaps influenced by oe.
   scratten to scratch; cf. ohg. chrazz=on, g. kratzen, od.
   kratsen, kretsen, d. krassen, sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to
   rake, to scratch, dan. kradse to scratch, to scrape, icel.
   krota to engrave. cf. grate to rub.
   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.
      1913 webster

            small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch
            glass.                                --grew.
      1913 webster

            be mindful, when invention fails,
            to scratch your head, and bite your nails. --swift.
      1913 webster

   2. to write or draw hastily or awkwardly. "scratch out a
      pamphlet." --swift.
      1913 webster

   3. to cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the
      name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a
      list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.
      1913 webster

   4. to dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals
      scratch holes, in which they burrow.
      1913 webster

   to scratch a ticket, to cancel one or more names of
      candidates on a party ballot; to refuse to vote the party
      ticket in its entirety. u. s.
      1913 webster
see also:
scratched scratching grate to scratch a ticket 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
scratched
     adj : having surface damage syn: scraped
see also:
scraped 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
39 moby thesaurus words for "scratched":
   canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, corduroy,
   corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, crimped, cut, dadoed,
   engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grooved,
   incised, pleated, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rutted, rutty, scored,
   scrabbled, scratchy, scrawled, scrawly, scribbled, scribbly, slit,
   striated, sulcate, sulcated, troughed, wrinkled





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