"the scrape of violin bows distracted her"
"a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"
"my sweater scratches"
"Don't scratch your insect bites!"
"Call off the engagement" "cancel the dinner party" "we had to scrub our vacation plans" "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"
"Please strike this remark from the record" "scratch that remark"
"She had scraped together enough money for college" "they scratched a meager living"
"engrave a pen" "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's" "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"