scratch out

1. 1.

   strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out

   “scratch out my name on that list”

   Synonymscut out

   Broadererase

Questions about scratch out

What does scratch out mean?

scratch out means "strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out".

What is another word for scratch out?

Close synonyms include cut out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scratch out a common word?

scratch out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.