Word Meanings - SCRATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

cf. OHG. chrazz, G. kratzen, OD. kratsen, kretsen, D. krassen, Sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to rake, to scratch, Dan. kradse to scratch, 1. To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly

Additional info about word: SCRATCH

cf. OHG. chrazz, G. kratzen, OD. kratsen, kretsen, D. krassen, Sw. kratsa to scrape, kratta to rake, to scratch, Dan. kradse to scratch, 1. To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like. Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.Grew. Be mindful, when invention fails., To scratch your head, and bite your nails.Swift. 2. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly. Scratch out a pamphlet." Swift. 3. To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out. 4. To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow. To scratch a ticket, to cancel one or more names of candidates on a party ballot; to refuse to vote the party ticket in its entirety.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCRATCH)

• Orate
• Bub
• scrape
• jar
• scratch
• Scarify
• Cut
• incise
• Irritate
• torment
• Scrape Grate
• abrade
• confricate
• rasp
• mark
• groove

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCRATCH)

• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to SCRATCH)

• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• TORMENTIL
  A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
• SCRATCH
  A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. Grose. 3. pl. (more info) 1. A break in the surface of a thing
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• TORMENT
  1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at
• GRATE
  1. A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. "A secret grate of iron bars." Shak. 2. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars,
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• GRATED
  Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• INDENTION
  See 4
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• INCISE
  1. To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. I on thy grave this epitaph incise. T. Carew. 2. To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• SCRATCHWEED
  Cleavers.
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• REGRATE
  To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham.
• HYDROCHLORATE
  See HYDROCHLORIDE
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• BICORPORATE
  Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• PERORATE
  To make a peroration; to harangue.
• TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
  Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate