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Definition of Scratch out
1. Verb. Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out. "Scratch out my name on that list"
Definition of Scratch out
1. Verb. To remove something by scratching. ¹
2. Verb. To remove something which was written, by erasing or by putting a mark through it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scratch Out
Literary usage of Scratch out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... to stick, prick, sting, when Lat. stinguere, to prick or scratch out, to quench.
See Stin Stigma. Der. in<tiga:-hn, Wint. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Blot, fa I. Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, expunge, rub out, blot out, scratch
out, strike out. 3. Tarnish, sully, disgrace, dishonor, blur, spot, ..."
3. Caspar's Technical Dictionary, English-German and German-English: Comprising by Carl Nicolaus Joseph Matthias Caspar (1914)
"... to scratch out, auskratzen. screen, Wand f. —of boards, Verschlag m. screen,
fluorescent ... scratch out ..."
4. Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath, George Taylor (1883)
""How much I must love Lydia," she said, "that I did not scratch out the eyes of
this wicked man. But he won't get off so easily." And she carefully dried up ..."
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