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Scratch out   /skrætʃ aʊt/   Listen
Scratch out

verb
1.
Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out.  Synonym: cut out.






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"Scratch out" Quotes from Famous Books



... fine drawings are either done quickly, or at all events straight forward, without alteration: he never, as far as I have examined his works hitherto, altered but to destroy. When he saw a plate look somewhat dead or heavy, as, compared with the drawing, it was almost sure at first to do, he used to scratch out little lights all over it, and make it "sparkling"; a process in which the engravers almost unanimously delighted,[V] and over the impossibility of which they now mourn, declaring it to be hopeless to ...
— The Harbours of England • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Scratch out" :   wipe off, erase, score out, efface, rub out



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