| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |   ch |
| NOUN: | 1. An irritating skin sensation causing a desire to scratch. 2. Any of various skin disorders, such as scabies, marked by intense irritation and itching. 3. A restless desire or craving for something: an itch to travel. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: itched, itch·ing, itch·es
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1a. To feel, have, or produce an itch. b. To have a desire to scratch. 2. To have a persistent, restless craving. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To cause to itch. 2. To scratch (an itch). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English yicche, from Old English gicce, from giccan, to itch.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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