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Crossword-Solution: SCRATCH 7 letters, 106 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Scratch v. t. 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.
Scratch v. t. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
Scratch v. t. 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.
Scratch v. t. To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals
scratch holes, in which they burrow.
Scratch v. i. To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to
make scratches.
Scratch v. i. To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate
chance of the game.
Scratch n. A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or
by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark,
furrow, or incision.
Scratch n. A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are
brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage;
as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.
Scratch n. Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered
with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is
very wet or muddy.
Scratch n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
Scratch n. A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the
player; a fluke.
Scratch a. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little
or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a
scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in
billiards.

We have 106 clues for the answer “SCRATCH”

Clue Answers
Billiard miscue. 1 answer
Cancel; score 1 answer
Chicken __ (hard-to-decipher writing) 1 answer
Chicken ___ (difficult-to-read handwriting) 1 answer
Daunting thing to start from 1 answer
Deal with poison ivy, in a way 1 answer
Delete, so to speak 1 answer
Ease an itch 1 answer
Get feline revenge 1 answer
Golf handicap of zero 1 answer
Hen marking 1 answer
Hit the cue ball into a pocket 1 answer
Horse withdrawn from a race 1 answer
Kentucky Derby cancellation 1 answer
Minor abrasion 1 answer
No-go at the track 1 answer
Pool error 1 answer
Pool infraction 1 answer
Pool misplay 1 answer
Remove from competition 1 answer
Satisfy an itch 1 answer
Score; cancel 1 answer
Sink the cue ball 1 answer
Slightest bit of harm 1 answer
Sniff partner 1 answer
Square one, so to speak 1 answer
Tabletop woe 1 answer
The Devil, with "Old" 1 answer
The beginning, in an idiom 1 answer
Use one's nails 1 answer
What some baked goods are made from? 1 answer
Withdraw from a contest. 1 answer
Withdraw from competition 1 answer
Withdraw, as a horse, from a race. 1 answer
cut the surface of 1 answer
engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's 1 answer
tear the skin when itching 1 answer
wear away the surface of 1 answer
Start from. 2 answers
Slight damage 2 answers
Where to start from 2 answers
Do a DJ's job 2 answers
Old ___ (Satan) 2 answers
Old ___ (the devil) 2 answers
SUPERFICIAL wound 2 answers
Racetrack term 2 answers
CD flaw 3 answers
Pool problem 4 answers
Body shop concern 4 answers
Slangy money 4 answers
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Sentences with SCRATCH (5)

For in what does your strength consist? You can scratch with your claws and bite with your teeth an a woman in her quarrels.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Cherry County; that’s where the hay is so fine, and the coyotes can scratch down to water.” At nine o’clock the next morning Alexandra presented herself at the warden’s office in the State Penitentiary.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
But she has no great tenderness even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later—oftener soon than late—is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
She came to help with the buggy, because she was afraid the wheels might scratch the paint off the gateposts.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with SCRATCH (3)

May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch
Keisha Keenleyside
A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. For…
Criss Jami Killosophy
An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.
William James Pragmatism and Other Writings
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 47 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).