Usually means: Marks made by scraping surfaces.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. scratches: Merriam-Webster
  2. scratches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scratches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scratches, scratches: Wordnik
  5. scratches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scratches: Wiktionary
  7. scratches: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. scratches: Dictionary.com
  9. scratches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Scratches (video game): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. scratches: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. scratches: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scratches: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. scratches: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scratches: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scratches: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scratches: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scratches)

▸ noun:  (pathology) Synonym of pastern dermatitis

Similar:
scraping, itch, rub, scribble, fray, prick, scrawl, fret, incision, slit, more...

Opposite:
smooth, level, unbroken

Phrases:
chicken scratches, scratches along, hen scratches, scratches the surface, scratches a and find a, more...

Adjectives:
few, deep, fine, small, minor, long, parallel, several, tiny, mere, little

↻From "No Hiding Place" by Elvis Costello:

You stay there with your daubs and scratches
While I summon up the red machine
Ill be handing somebody matches
And carrying a can of kerosene
1 of 24 verses


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Similar:
scraping, itch, rub, scribble, fray, prick, scrawl, fret, incision, slit, more...

Opposite:
smooth, level, unbroken

Phrases:
chicken scratches, scratches along, hen scratches, scratches the surface, scratches a and find a, scratches a and find an, scratches an and find a, scratches an and find an, scratches for, scratches head, more...

Adjectives:
few, deep, fine, small, minor, long, parallel, several, tiny, mere, little



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