WordNet
Usage examples of "scratch up".
LIPITERO IS EQUALLY USELESS, SO TIMKA HAS TO SCRATCH UP ANCIENT MEMORIES, STRUGGLE WITH THE STRAPS AND BUCKLES AND CONVINCE A PAIR OF HIGH-SPIRITED BEASTS THEY WANT TO GO HOW AND WHERE SHE DIRECTS THEM.
I may just scratch it in my copy, if I ever scratch up enough scratch from my pumpkin-patch to buy a copy someday.
Even if they did not scratch up the corn, and peck the strawberries, and eat the tomatoes, it is not pleasant to see them straddling about in their jerky, high-stepping, speculative manner, picking inquisitively here and there.
Yosh's famished chaliko took advantage of the halt to scratch up a few chufas from the muddy earth.
Pascal and Patrice helped me scratch up a little plot that eventually produced a few bleak, dusty bouquets of spinach and beans, which were gobbled up one night by our neighbor’.
But since there was no way of proving who the killer was, I decided to string along with the accident story until I could scratch up enough evidence to point an accusing finger.
With luck and scalded fingers you could scratch up a drip or two for yourself.