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scratch out

verb as in efface

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Example Sentences

These birds depend for food upon seeds and bugs or worms they scratch out of the ground.

I suppose they neglected to scratch out my name from the subscription; for Major Cerwood says it really came to me.

Why'd he come half across Creation to scratch out a living with a horse-drawn plow?

I think I must turn womankind altogether, and scratch out his eyes; for as long as he can see me, he'll ne'er let me go.

She had simply been the patient who would scratch out the eyes of the surgeon.

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On this page you'll find 246 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scratch out, such as: abolish, abort, annul, break off, cut, and destroy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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