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scratches one's head

scratches one's head is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 scratches one's head

What is scratches one's head the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scratches one's head is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scratch one's head.

Words near scratches one's head in the dictionary

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

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