Lines
Scratches
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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In Animorphs, when Rachel morphed into a cat and scratches someone, she notes that it left "three red lines" on the back of his hand.
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In later releases, the lines were censored out with record scratches.
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In later releases of Michael Jackson's HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book I, the lines "jew me" and "kike me" from his song "They Don't Really Care About Us" (which led to accusations of antisemitism, which Jackson denied) were censored out with record scratches.
Source: Sound Effect Bleep
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Scratches and Lines. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lines/scratches
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