From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishscratch something ↔ out phrasal verbWRITEREMOVEto remove a word from a piece of writing by drawing a line through it SYN cross out Emma’s name had been scratched out. → scratch→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
scratch out• For a paper of pins I'd scratch thy eyes out!• Bay rum, he wrote, then scratched it out with a chuckle. 