scratch-out

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

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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."
"Any changes to the text were made with a primitive scratch-out."
"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."

Deverbal from scratch out.

scratch-outs (plural)

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