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scratch out

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Verb1.scratch out - strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list"
cut out
rub out, score out, wipe off, erase, efface - remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
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vt sep → auskratzen; (= cross out) → ausstreichen
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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.
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With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.
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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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