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third-person singular simple present bescratches, present participle bescratching, simple past and past participle bescratched
(transitive) To scratch; scratch about; scratch all over. quotations examples
I no sooner see him, but I scream out to Mrs. Jervis, she feigns likewise but just to come to herself; we both begin, she to becall, and I to bescratch very liberally.
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