Itch

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  • noun. An irritating skin sensation causing a desire to scratch.
  • noun. Any of various skin disorders, such as scabies, marked by intense irritation and itching.
  • noun. A restless desire or craving for something.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To feel, have, or produce an itch.
  • intransitive verb. To have a desire to scratch.
  • intransitive verb. To have a persistent, restless craving.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to itch.
  • intransitive verb. To scratch (an itch).
  • 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.
  • noun. A tingling sensation of irritation in the skin, produced by disease (see def. 2) or in any other way.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Hence An uneasy longing or propensity; a teasing or tingling desire: as, an itch for praise; an itch for scribbling.
  • noun. See the qualifying words.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
  • intransitive verb. To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Any itching eruption.
  • noun. A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
  • noun. A constant irritating desire.
  • noun. See under Baker.
  • noun. sycosis.
  • noun. an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers.
  • noun. an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite (Tyrogluphus sacchari).
  • noun. a small parasitic mite (Sarcoptes scabei) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin, thus causing the disease known as the itch. See Illust. in Append.
  • noun. Same as Itch insect, above. Also, other similar mites affecting the lower animals, as the horse and ox.
  • noun. a variety of eczema, due to the action of sugar upon the skin.
  • noun. eczema of the hands and arms, occurring among washerwomen.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
  • noun. A desire or want.
  • verb. To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
  • verb. To want or desire.
  • verb. To cause to feel an itch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. have or perceive an itch
  • verb. have a strong desire or urge to do something
  • verb. cause to perceive an itch
  • noun. a strong restless desire
  • noun. an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
  • verb. scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
  • noun. a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
  • Word Usage
    "It always makes the back of my brain itch because of how unnecessary (and ultimately confusing) it is to do so."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    desire  infection  irritate  want  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Fitch  Ich  Mich  Mitch  Rich  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ache  affliction  ailment  blister  cough  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    psora  scabies  
    verb-form
    itched  itches  itching