| dug | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. dug | an udder or breast or teat. |
| ~ female mammal | animals that nourish their young with milk. |
| ~ mammary gland, mamma | milk-secreting organ of female mammals. |
| scratch | | |
| n. (state) | 1. abrasion, excoriation, scrape, scratch | an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off. |
| ~ graze | a superficial abrasion. |
| ~ rope burn | abrasion (usually on the hands) caused by friction from a rope. |
| ~ wound, lesion | an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). |
| n. (shape) | 2. dent, incision, prick, scratch, slit | a depression scratched or carved into a surface. |
| ~ imprint, impression, depression | a concavity in a surface produced by pressing.; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" |
| ~ scotch, score | a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally). |
| n. (possession) | 3. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum | informal terms for money. |
| ~ money | the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender.; "we tried to collect the money he owed us" |
| n. (person) | 4. scratch | a competitor who has withdrawn from competition. |
| ~ challenger, competitor, contender, rival, competition | the contestant you hope to defeat.; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" |
| n. (location) | 5. scratch, scratch line, start, starting line | a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game. |
| ~ line | in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area. |
| n. (food) | 6. chicken feed, scratch | dry mash for poultry. |
| ~ mash | mixture of ground animal feeds. |
| n. (event) | 7. scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching | a harsh noise made by scraping.; "the scrape of violin bows distracted her" |
| ~ noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).; "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" |
| n. (communication) | 8. cacography, scratch, scrawl, scribble | poor handwriting. |
| ~ handwriting, script, hand | something written by hand.; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" |
| ~ chicken scratch | cramped or illegible handwriting. |
| ~ squiggle | an illegible scrawl.; "his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle" |
| n. (attribute) | 9. scratch | (golf) a handicap of zero strokes.; "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course" |
| ~ golf, golf game | a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes. |
| ~ handicap | advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning. |
| n. (attribute) | 10. mark, scar, scrape, scratch | an indication of damage. |
| ~ blemish, mar, defect | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body).; "a facial blemish" |
| v. (contact) | 11. chafe, fray, fret, rub, scratch | cause friction.; "my sweater scratches" |
| ~ adjoin, contact, touch, meet | be in direct physical contact with; make contact.; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" |
| v. (contact) | 12. scrape, scratch, scratch up | cut the surface of; wear away the surface of. |
| ~ claw | scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails. |
| ~ scuff | mar by scuffing.; "scuffed shoes" |
| ~ incise | make an incision into by carving or cutting. |
| v. (perception) | 13. itch, rub, scratch | scrape or rub as if to relieve itching.; "Don't scratch your insect bites!" |
| ~ irritate | excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame.; "Aspirin irritates my stomach" |
| v. (social) | 14. call off, cancel, scratch, scrub | postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill" |
| ~ schedule | make a schedule; plan the time and place for events.; "I scheduled an exam for this afternoon" |
| v. (contact) | 15. excise, expunge, scratch, strike | remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark" |
| ~ delete, cancel | remove or make invisible.; "Please delete my name from your list" |
| v. (contact) | 16. come up, scrape, scrape up, scratch | gather (money or other resources) together over time.; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" |
| ~ nickel-and-dime | accumulate gradually.; "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| v. (contact) | 17. engrave, grave, inscribe, scratch | carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" |
| ~ chip at, carve | engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface.; "carve one's name into the bark" |
| ~ engrave, etch | carve or cut a design or letters into.; "engrave the pen with the owner's name" |
| ~ character | engrave or inscribe characters on. |
| excavate | | |
| v. (perception) | 1. excavate, unearth | recover through digging.; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold" |
| ~ bring out, reveal, uncover, unveil | make visible.; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her" |
| ~ dig out, dig up, dig | remove, harvest, or recover by digging.; "dig salt"; "dig coal" |
| v. (contact) | 2. dig up, excavate, turn up | find by digging in the ground.; "I dug up an old box in the garden" |
| ~ grub out, grub up | dig up.; "grub up roots and tree stumps" |
| ~ nuzzle | dig out with the snout.; "the pig nuzzled the truffle" |
| ~ obtain | come into possession of.; "How did you obtain the visa?" |
| ~ locate, turn up | discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining.; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" |
| ~ disinter, exhume | dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies. |
| v. (contact) | 3. excavate | form by hollowing.; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity" |
| ~ core out, hollow out, hollow | remove the interior of.; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
| v. (contact) | 4. dig, excavate, hollow | remove the inner part or the core of.; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" |
| ~ remove, take away, withdraw, take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" |
| ~ drive | excavate horizontally.; "drive a tunnel" |
| ~ trench, ditch | cut a trench in, as for drainage.; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields" |
| quarry | | |
| n. (person) | 1. fair game, prey, quarry, target | a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence.; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt" |
| ~ victim | an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. pit, quarry, stone pit | a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" |
| ~ chalk pit, chalkpit | a quarry for chalk. |
| ~ excavation | a hole in the ground made by excavating. |
| ~ gravel pit | a quarry for gravel. |
| n. (animal) | 3. prey, quarry | animal hunted or caught for food. |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| v. (consumption) | 4. quarry | extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.; "quarry marble" |
| ~ quarrying | the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry. |
| ~ exploit, tap | draw from; make good use of.; "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely" |
| ~ cut into, delve, dig, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth.; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
| scratch | | |
| unearth | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. unearth | bring to light.; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President" |
| ~ locate, turn up | discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining.; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" |
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