The word 'scratched' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about something that is lightly scraped or marked. For example: "My cat's claws scratched the arm of the sofa."
There's also endless innuendo – "Yeezus just rose again" – and the odd wry confession: "I slightly scratched your Corolla [pause], OK I smashed your Corolla".
It is softer than sapphire and can be scratched by more materials including keys.
Among the shortlisted artists exhibiting was a young man who made evanescent little sculptures – monkeys, rabbits, squirrels – out of the fluff he scratched up from a newly laid carpet using his fingernails.
It's almost like a glossy record that's been thrown down a ravine and scratched and roughed up a bit".
By the prime minister's own admission, his conversations with other leaders have so far only "scratched the surface".
The test shows that Apple's Ion-X glass on the Apple Watch Sport will have a similar scratch resistance to smartphone screens, which notoriously can get scratched up just through general use.
Artaud's language – semi-coherent, as though he were inventing it from scratch – his alienation from society (from the human race even), his savage portraits, more like the bloodied ghosts of Banquo and his successors, and, perhaps most of all, the indeterminate sex of the figures he scratched on to paper, became her lodestar.
An electrician turned up, scratched his chin and shook his head.
Padnos kept track of time by marking off the days on a calendar he scratched into his prison wall.
He began hurting Quillin with short shots and scratched his way back on the scorecards.
"I think we've just scratched the surface".
