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scratches (out)

verb , present tense third-person singular of scratch (out)

Synonyms and Antonyms of scratches (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 scratches (out)

authors, pens, scribbles, writes

Words Related to scratches (out)

casts, composes, crafts, drafts, draws up, formulates, frames, prepares

recasts, redrafts, revises, rewrites

letters, prints, types, typewrites

records, takes down, transcribes

autographs, pencils (in), registers, signs

couches, expresses, phrases, puts, words

2 to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it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

blue-pencils, cancels, crosses (out), deles, deletes, edits (out), elides, kills, strikes (out), strokes (out), x's (out)

Words Related to scratches (out)

blots out, effaces, eradicates, erases, expunges, obliterates, roots (out), rubs out, wipes out

bleeps, blips, clips, cuts, excises, removes

bowdlerizes, censors, cleans (up), expurgates, launders, redacts, red-pencils

abbreviates, crops, shortens

blacks out, represses, silences, suppresses

Near Antonyms of scratches (out)

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