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the itch's tiny rebellion, scratching the very nerve that started the war.
means To rub or scrape a surface, often with nails or claws, to relieve an itch or leave a mark — or, as a noun, the small wound or line such scraping leaves.
from From Middle English, where two older words seem to have collided and merged: 'scratten' (to scratch) and 'cracchen' (to claw), both echoing the harsh, grating sound of the act itself. They trace back to Germanic roots possibly related to Old High German 'krazzon,' a cousin to modern German 'kratzen,' to scratch. The many idioms — 'from scratch,' 'up to scratch,' 'scratch the surface' — grew later, several borrowed from the starting lines once scratched into the ground for races and prizefights.
- itch cycle
- Scratching feels good but inflames skin, deepening the itch
- from zero
- From scratch once meant the starting line in races
- old slang
- Scratch has meant money since the 1900s
- kids code
- MIT's Scratch taught millions to program by dragging blocks
- vinyl weapon
- DJs turned record scratching into an instrument
scratch lottery — instant-win gambling tickets, billions sold annually in us states
scratch disk — temporary storage drive in adobe creative suite software used globally
scratch programming language — mit visual coding platform launched 2007, millions of children use it