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scratch out
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of SCRATCH
1
to compose and set down on paper the words of <scratched out a poem for his beloved wife on the home front>
2
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it <scratched out the old phone number and wrote in the new one>
Synonyms blue-pencil, cancel, cross (out), dele, delete, edit (out), elide, kill, scratch (out), strike (out), stroke (out)
Related Words blot out, efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, obliterate, root (out), rub out, wipe out; bleep, blip, clip, cut, excise, remove; bowdlerize, censor, clean (up), expurgate, launder, redact, red-pencil; abbreviate, crop, shorten; black out, repress, silence, suppress
Near Antonyms stet
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