Itch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An irritating skin sensation causing a desire to scratch.
  • n. Any of various skin disorders, such as scabies, marked by intense irritation and itching.
  • n. A restless desire or craving for something: an itch to travel.
  • verb-intransitive. To feel, have, or produce an itch.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a desire to scratch.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a persistent, restless craving.
  • v. To cause to itch.
  • v. To scratch (an itch).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
  • n. A desire or want.
  • v. To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  • v. To want or desire.
  • v. To cause to feel an itch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for.
  • n. An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
  • n. Any itching eruption.
  • n. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
  • n. A constant irritating desire.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To feel a peculiar irritation or tingling of the skin, producing an inclination to scratch the part so affected.
  • Hence To experience a provoking, teasing, or tingling desire to do or to get something.
  • n. A tingling sensation of irritation in the skin, produced by disease (see def. 2) or in any other way.
  • n. An inflammation of the human skin, caused by the presence of a minute mite, Sarcoptes scabiei (see itch-mite), presenting papules, vesicles, and pustules, and accompanied with great itching; scabies.
  • n. Hence An uneasy longing or propensity; a teasing or tingling desire: as, an itch for praise; an itch for scribbling.
  • n. See the qualifying words.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. have or perceive an itch
  • v. have a strong desire or urge to do something
  • v. cause to perceive an itch
  • n. a strong restless desire
  • n. an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
  • v. scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
  • n. a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
  • Verb Form
    itched    itches    itching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    desire    want    irritate    infection   
    Variant
    scabies    psora   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    desire   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Fitch    Ich    Mich    Mitch    Rich    Ritch    bewitch    bitch    ditch    enrich   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ache    tingle    headache    torment    urge    nuisance    ailment    throb    thirst    uneasiness