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scratch (out)

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of scratch (out)

1 to compose and set down on paper the words of

scratched out a poem for his beloved wife on the home front

Synonyms of scratch (out)

author, pen, scribble, write

Words Related to scratch (out)

cast, compose, craft, draft, draw up, formulate, frame, prepare

recast, redraft, revise, rewrite

letter, print, type, typewrite

record, take down, transcribe

autograph, pencil (in), register, sign

couch, express, phrase, put, word

2 to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it

scratched out the old phone number and wrote in the new one

Synonyms of scratch (out)

blue-pencil, cancel, cross (out), dele, delete, edit (out), elide, kill, strike (out), stroke (out), x (out)

Words Related to scratch (out)

blot out, efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, obliterate, root (out), rub out, wipe out

bleep, blip, clip, cut, excise, remove

bowdlerize, censor, clean (up), expurgate, launder, redact, red-pencil

abbreviate, crop, shorten

black out, repress, silence, suppress

Near Antonyms of scratch (out)

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