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scratched up

scratched up is the simple past and past participle of scratch up.

Meaning of scratch up

Verb

scratch up (third-person singular simple present scratches up, present participle scratching up, simple past and past participle scratched up)

  1. (transitive) To scratch the surface of (something) thoroughly.

Questions about scratched up

What is scratched up the simple past and past participle of?
Scratched up is the simple past and past participle of scratch up.

Words near scratched up in the dictionary

  1. scratched one's own itch
  2. scratched out
  3. scratched that
  4. scratched the surface
  5. scratched together
  6. scratched up
  7. scratchee
  8. scratchees
  9. scratcher
  10. scratchers
  11. scratches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scratched up (page history and authors); scratch up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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