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scratching (out)verbpresent participle of scratch (out) to compose and set down on paper the words ofscratched out a poem for his beloved wife on the home front authoring, penning, scribbling, writing casting, composing, crafting, drafting, drawing up, formulating, framing, preparingrecasting, redrafting, revising, rewritinglettering, printing, typewriting, typingrecording, taking down, transcribingautographing, penciling (in)(or pencilling (in)), registering, signingcouching, expressing, phrasing, putting, wording to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through itscratched out the old phone number and wrote in the new one blue-penciling, canceling(or cancelling), crossing (out), deleing, deleting, editing (out), eliding, killing, striking (out), stroking (out), x-ing (out)(or x'ing (out)) blotting out, effacing, eradicating, erasing, expunging, obliterating, rooting (out), rubbing out, wiping outbleeping, blipping, clipping, cutting, excising, removingbowdlerizing, censoring, cleaning (up), expurgating, laundering, redacting, red-pencilingabbreviating, cropping, shorteningblacking out, repressing, silencing, suppressing stetting |