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scratched one's head

scratched one's head is the simple past and past participle of scratch one's head.

Meaning of scratch one's head

Verb

scratch one's head (third-person singular simple present scratches one's head, present participle scratching one's head, simple past and past participle scratched one's head)

  1. (idiomatic) To puzzle, ponder, or wonder about something.
    • Faced with a box full of hundreds of small parts and forty pages worth of assembly instructions, he could do little more than stand there and scratch his head.

Questions about scratched one's head

What is scratched one's head the simple past and past participle of?
Scratched one's head is the simple past and past participle of scratch one's head.

Words near scratched one's head in the dictionary

  1. scratched a living
  2. scratched an itch
  3. scratched below the surface
  4. scratched beneath the surface
  5. scratched by
  6. scratched one's head
  7. scratched one's own itch
  8. scratched out
  9. scratched that
  10. scratched the surface
  11. scratched together

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