scratch

/skratʃ/

US pronunciation

American sound/skratʃ/

scratch

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> scratch

Myanmar meaning

(v) ကုတ် (n) ကုတ်ရာခြစ်ရာ

Full entry

scratch /skrætʃ/ v

၁။ (က) ကုတ်သည်။ That cat won't scratch (you). ❍ The dog is scratching at the door. ❍ You've scratched the table with your knife.
(ခ) ရေးခြစ်သည်။ ယက်သည်။ ခြစ်သည်။ scratch a line on a surface ❍ scratch (out) a hole in the soil ❍ He'd scratched his name in the bark of the tree. (ဂ) ခြစ်ထုတ်သည်။ ပယ် ဖျက်သည်။ scratch the rust off the lock ❍ Mind he doesn't scratch your eyes out. ❍ (fig ) Her name had been scratched off the list.
၂။ (ယား၍) ကုတ်သည်။ Stop scratching (yourself). ❍ Scratching the rash will only make it worse.
၃။ ~ sb/oneself/sth (on sth) ခြစ်မိသည်။ She scratched herself while pruning the roses. ❍ He's scratched his hand on a nail.
၄။ တဂျစ်ဂျစ်မြည်သည်။ My pen scratches.
၅။ ~ (sb/sth) (from sth) (ပြိုင်ပွဲမှ)ထွက် သည်။
I had to scratch (from the marathon) because of illness. ❍ The horse had to be scratched (from its first race).
n
၁။ [C] ကုတ်ရာ။ ခြစ်ရာ။ ပွန်းရာ။ ပဲ့ရာ။ Her hands were covered with scratches from the thorns. ❍ It's only a scratch (ie a very slight injury). ❍ He escaped without a scratch (ie was not hurt at all).
၂။ [sing] ကုတ်ခြင်း။ I like a good scratch!
adj
၁။ (esp Brit ) ရရာစုပေါင်းစပ်ပေါင်း။ a scratch meal/team/orchestra.
၂။ (ဂေါက်သီး စသည်၌) အကျောမဲ့။ a scratch golfer/player/race.
❏ scratch about/around (for sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ ယက်၍ (အစာ)ရှာသည်။ chickens scratching about in the farmyard.
၂။ လှန်လှောရှာသည်။ ကုတ်ကုတ်ကတ်ကတ် (စဉ်းစား သည်)။ scratching around in the rubble looking for bits of junk ❍ (fig ) She was scratching around for something to say.
❏ scratch one's head [IDM ] ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် စဉ်းစား သည်။ We've been scratching our heads for days over this problem.
❏ scratch pad n (esp US )
ရေးမှတ်ပြီး ဆုတ်ခွာနိုင်သော မှတ်စုစာအုပ်ငယ်။
❏ scratch the surface (of sth) [IDM ]
အပေါ်ယံ အပယိက မျှသာ ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်း နိုင်သည်။ This article is short and only scratches the surface of the topic. ❍ The famine is so bad, aid can only scratch the surface.
❏ scratchy adj
၁။ ယားကျိကျိရှိသော။ scratchy clothes/wool.
၂။ ခြစ်ရာဗရပွနှင့် သံသေးသံကြောင်ဖောက်သော (ဓာတ်ပြား စသည်)။
၃။ တဂျစ်ဂျစ်မြည်သော(ကလောင်သွား)။
၄။ လက်ရာ ကြမ်းကြမ်းသော့သော့ (ပုံ၊ ပန်းချီ)။
❏ (be/come) up to scratch; (bring sb/sth) up to scratch [IDM ]
အဆင့်မီသည်။ အဆင့်မီအောင်ပြင်သည်။ ကောင်းအောင်မွမ်းမံသည်။ Is her school- work up to scratch? သူ ကျောင်းစာ သေသေချာချာ လိုက်နိုင် ရဲ့လား။ ❍ We'll have to bring the house up to scratch before we sell it.
အိမ်ကိုမရောင်းမီ အဆင့်မီအောင် တို့ပြင်ဆင်ရ လိမ့်မယ်။
❏ you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours [IDM ] (saying ) အမြီးစားဖက် ခေါင်းစားဖက် အပေးအယူလုပ်သည်။

More examples

Stop scratching!
Scratch my back for me, will you.
Don’t worry: the cat won’t scratch you.
The tree’s branches had scratched his hands and they were bleeding.
Someone’s scratched my car door.
[scratch at] : I could hear the dog scratching at the back door.
The turntable allows the DJ to mix and scratch the music that is being played.
From beat mixing, to scratching, to tone play – he does it all.
A badly scratched CD

Synonyms

scrape, graze, grate, rub, cut, score, nick, scuff, abandon, abrade, abrasion, annul, bite, blemish, bow out, cancel, claw, claw mark, damage, delete, drop out, eliminate, erase, etch, forget, gash, hurt, incise, inconsiderable, itch, lacerate, laceration, leave, leave out, mark, nickel-and-dime, of no account, penny ante, penny-ante, petty, prick, pull, pull out, rasp, scarify, scrabble, scrap, scratcher, scrawl, scribble, shoestring, strike, two bit, withdraw, worry at

Antonyms

continue, heal, keep, mend, perfection, schedule, set up, smooth

Cross references

scrape graze grate rub cut score nick scuff abandon abrade abrasion annul bite blemish bow out cancel claw claw mark damage delete drop out eliminate erase etch forget gash hurt incise