English Dictionary

scratch

/skɹæt͡ʃ/

verb

To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc. / To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.

She scratched her arm with a pin.

意味（1）

To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.

Could you please scratch my back?

意味（2）

To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.

意味（3）

To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.

意味（4）

To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).

A real diamond can easily scratch a pane of glass.

意味（5）

(of a surface) to get such scratches

This platter scratches easily.

意味（6）

To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.

意味（7）

Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.

Scratch what I said earlier; I was wrong.

意味（8）

(music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).

意味（9）

(billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.

Embarrassingly, he scratched on the break, popping the cue completely off the table.

意味（10）

(billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.

意味（11）

To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.

If any of the Labourers can ſcratch out a Pamphlet, they deſire no more; There is no Queſtion offered about the Wit, the Style, the Argument.

意味（12）

(transitive, intransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.

Some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

意味（13）

To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.

The cat scratched the little girl.

意味（14）

(swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.

Kerley, 26, is the 2019 World bronze medalist at 400 meters, a distance he is known for and with which he also won the 2017 and 2019 U.S. titles, but surprised the track world by announcing one week ago that he scratched the 400m and would focus on the 100m and 200m in Eugene, Oregon, despite not having raced the 100m between 2015 and 2020.