LekhoriLekhoriTo rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
Could you please scratch my back?
To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
I don't like that new scarf because it scratches my neck.
To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
A real diamond can easily scratch a pane of glass.
A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
I can’t believe there is a scratch in the paint already.
An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
The dog sat up and had a good scratch.
For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
This is scratch paper, so go ahead and scribble whatever you want on it.
Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
A scratch company of two innocuous youths and a pacified veteran was therefore what now offered itself to Mrs. Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone.
A free educational visual programming language developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
A surname.
From Middle English scracchen, of uncertain origin. Probably a blend of Middle English scratten (“to scratch”) and cracchen (“to scratch”). More at scrat and cratch.
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A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
He started a few seconds before the time and came up in speed to the scratch at the moment appointed.
Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
scratch memory