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scratch out

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scratch someone or something out
to mark out the name of someone or something. I scratched John out and wrote in George instead. I scratched out John and forgot about him.
See also: out, scratch
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she cried mockingly, 'you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
I don't quite know, and yet I have had to do with niggers --no, I will scratch out that word "niggers," for I do not like it.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
 
 
 
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