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scratch-out en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from scratch out.

Meanings

1. A mark through or over writing made to revoke it so a correction can be made.
   • One of life's more discouraging experiences is to receive an order with a scratch-out or substitution you don't want. 1987, Restaurant Management, volume 1:
   • According to the State,the victim had maintained all along that the time of the robbery was 8:15, and there was a scratch out over the report that appeared to give the time of the robbery as 9:15. 1999, West's Southern Reporter:
   • Any changes to the text were made with a primitive scratch-out. 1998, Dovid Rossoff, Where Heaven Touches Earth, page iii:

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