What are some alternative words for scratching?
Synonyms for scratching
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term scratching.
Princeton's WordNet
scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching(noun)
a harsh noise made by scraping
"the scrape of violin bows distracted her"
Synonyms:
lolly, start, clams, cacography, scrawl, starting line, cabbage, wampum, lucre, boodle, mark, incision, gelt, scratch line, bread, scraping, slit, lettuce, prick, loot, sugar, chicken feed, scratch, simoleons, abrasion, pelf, dough, dinero, kale, scrape, excoriation, scar, scribble, dent, shekels, moolah
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases:
Words popularity by usage frequency
| rank | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #474 | start | |
| #834 | mark | |
| #3383 | sugar | |
| #4920 | bread | |
| #7665 | scratch | |
| #13712 | dent | |
| #13739 | dough | |
| #16414 | cabbage | |
| #17323 | scar | |
| #18846 | lettuce | |
| #21399 | slit | |
| #22047 | scratching | |
| #25353 | loot | |
| #28087 | prick | |
| #29356 | abrasion | |
| #30906 | clams | |
| #32143 | incision | |
| #32424 | scrape | |
| #34638 | scraping | |
| #38857 | kale | |
| #46676 | scribble | |
| #48854 | shekels | |
| #50918 | dinero | |
| #57750 | lolly | |
| #69241 | wampum | |
| #90939 | scrawl | |
| #106773 | lucre | |
| #126686 | moolah | |
| #163144 | gelt | |
| #216729 | boodle | |
| #304082 | simoleons |
How to use scratching in a sentence?
You may have to take another 25% to create the right societal engagements and environmental designs, so will investors accept lower returns? I think it's probably causing a bit of head scratching around the industry in this tug-of-war of priorities.
We're just scratching the surface of the possibilities of bikes and other electric vehicles that are small, the mold of a car looking like a car or needing to be the way it is I think is going to change dramatically.
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.
For us it's about trying to find out how to create more fans of basketball. ... we want to figure out how to get more kids dribbling a basketball, the opportunity is immense and we are just scratching the surface.
The public does not view this as business as usual, this jury is saying that self-dealing and back-scratching is not an acceptable way for a public servant to behave.
Translations for scratching
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- scratchFrench
- drapaniePolish
- RiscandoPortuguese
- รอยขีดข่วนThai
Get even more translations for scratching »
Translation
Find a translation for the scratching synonym in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:
"scratching." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2020. Web. 21 Oct. 2020. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/scratching>.
