Crossword-Solution: SCRATCHES 9 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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CD flaws 1 answer
Cat claw marks 1 answer
Horseplayers' concerns 1 answer
Sinks the cue ball 1 answer
Sinks the cueball, e.g. 1 answer
disease of horses characterized by dermatitis in the region of the fetlock 1 answer
Scrapes 7 answers
Abrades 8 answers
Mars 27 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MACZEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCRATCHES (5)

The record of the plow was insignificant, like the feeble scratches on stone left by prehistoric races, so indeterminate that they may, after all, be only the markings of glaciers, and not a record of human strivings.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Only at the outer corners of her eyes, between the eye and the temple, were the faintest indications of a future attack—mere kitten scratches that playfully hinted where one day the cat would claw her.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
When all had been made to appear as it was before, one of the warriors made several cuts and scratches upon the stem of a tree which grew above the spot where the chest was buried; then they hastened on in silence past Bulan and down the river.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
The woodwork was cut, and the scratches showed white through the paint, as if they had been that instant done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Sometimes he has regular fits, he gets so mad, and rolls on the floor and scratches himself.” One morning in November, about ten o'clock, Trina pasted a “Made in France” label on the bottom of a Noah's ark, and leaned back in her chair with a long sigh of relief.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Quotes with SCRATCHES (3)

Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but the smile doesn't spread to his eyes, which look less tense and worried." You belong here, you know that?" he says. "You belong with us. It'll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?" He scratches behind his ear and looks away, like he's embarrassed by what he said. I stare at him. I feel my heartbe…
Veronica Roth Divergent
It wouldn't have mattered if they were scratches or not," he says, his voice like liquid. "I was bitten during the escape from the house." My limbs go weak, everything inside me folding in collapsing on itself." I was already dead," he says, opening his eyes.
Carrie Ryan The Forest of Hands and Teeth
When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? A…
Dan Simmons Drood
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).