What does scratch up mean?

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scratch up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

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scratches up (present, singular) scratching up (participle, present) scratched up (participle, past) scratched up (past)

scratch scrape

What does scratch up mean?: To scratch the surface of (something) thoroughly.

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