scratched out
Deleted with lines
Scratched out means crossed through with rough lines, making something illegible or deleted: She scratched out the wrong answer and wrote the correct one.
The phrase suggests hasty or imperfect erasure—you can often still see what was scratched out.
By extension, to scratch out a living is to barely manage survival through hard effort.
- scrapeRub harshly against
- cross outEliminate by marking
- struck throughMarked for deletion
- crossed outMarked as removed
- obliterateDestroy all traces of
blotted out · redact · erase · rubbed out · line · pen marks · expunge · cancel · gouge · mark · delete · wiped clean · scuff · reject · etch · void · deface · nullify