from scratch is an adverb meaning "from the beginning, especially without relying on resources or other advantages". It carries one recorded sense.
from the beginning, especially without relying on resources or other advantages
“he baked the torte from scratch”
“she built her business up from scratch”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for from scratch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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