What is another word for "scratch"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "scratch": abrasion, accident, adversity, affriction, anamorphosis, and, ankle, anointment, arrosion, attrite, attrition, awry, bad, badness, bale, bane, bisulcate, bisulcous, bite, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burlesque, calamity, canaliculated, caricature, casualty, catastrophe, cause, chamfer, channel, confrication, contrition, corduroy, cost, costate, crack, cradle, crying.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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