Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scratch; tear with the nails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
scratch ; scratch about; scratch all over.
Etymologies
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From Middle English bescratchen, equivalent to be- + scratch.
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Examples
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Stand so, my children, two by two, and -- Lotta, why do they thus themselves bescratch?
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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