scratch out meaning: definition, quotations

scratch out

verbalso spelled scratch-out

To remove something by scratching.

To remove something which was written, by erasing or by putting a mark through it.

To eke out; to obtain with difficulty.

noun

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:
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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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: