Crossword-Solution: SCRATCHING 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Scratching p. pr. & vb. n. of Scratch
Scratching adv. With the action of scratching.

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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.
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Sentences with SCRATCHING (5)

They followed him with their eyes; they scarce knew that Hook had resumed his song, his dogs joining in with him: “Yo ho, yo ho, the scratching cat, Its tails are nine, you know, And when they’re writ upon your back—” What was the last line will never be known, for of a sudden the song was stayed by a dreadful screech from the cabin.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: “If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!” The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The hens were clucking and scratching brown holes in the flower beds, and the wind was teasing the prince’s feather by the door.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
She’d had a pretty hard time, scratching along alone like that when she was so young, and my farms in Nebraska were down so low that I couldn’t help her none.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
They stood there a-thinking and scratching their heads a minute, and the duke he bust into a kind of a little raspy chuckle, and says: “It does beat all how neat the niggers played their hand.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with SCRATCHING (3)

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look…
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner. The truth, however, is painful. It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.
Markus Zusak Getting the Girl
I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
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