scratch

v

1. abrade, skin, bark, scrape, graze; scarify, gash, incise, score, slit; lacerate, cut, claw; mark, scuff.

2. rub, chafe, file; poke at, dig, tear at.

3. rasp, grate, gride, grit, stridulate, screak.

4. erase, rub out, cross out, x out, strike out, Print. dele, delete; expunge, excise, eradicate, eliminate, exclude, blot out, obliterate.

5. manage, get along, eke, make do, survive.

n

6. abrasion, scrape, scuff; laceration, cut, incision, gash, puncture, wound; line, mark, striation, scar.

7. scrawl. See scrawl(def. 2).

8. up to scratch

adequate, satisfactory, competent, able, capable, Inf. up to snuff.