scratched

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɹæt͡ʃt/
• Rhymes: -ætʃt

Adjective

scratched (comparative more scratched, superlative most scratched)

1. Produced by scratching.
   • c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

     My Lord, my thanks; but theſe ſcratcht limbs of mine have ſpoke my love and truth unto my friends, more than my tongue ere could: my mind's the ſame it ever was to you; where I find worth, I love the keeper, till he let it go, And then I follow it.

Verb

scratched

1. simple past and past participle of scratch