scratch
B2UK /skrætʃ/US /skrætʃ/
Meaning
noun
a mark, a cut or an injury made by scratching somebody’s skin or the surface of something
“Her hands were covered in scratches from the brambles.”
verb
to rub your skin with your nails, usually because it is itching
“scratch something, John yawned and scratched his chin.”
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“scratch to to do that and yet in the uh”
📺 Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureLearn this word in the video →
“Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life, the life you author from scratch on your own, begins.”
📺 Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton UniversityLearn this word in the video →
“in other words whatever you do with your life be a builder you don't have to start from scratch to build something monumental and conversely the best founders the ones whose creations”
📺 2019 Stanford Commencement address by Tim CookLearn this word in the video →
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