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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.
With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.
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.
 
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