Itch meaning

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An irritating skin sensation causing a desire to scratch.
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Any of various skin disorders, such as scabies, marked by intense irritation and itching.
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A restless desire or craving for something.

An itch to travel.

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To have a persistent, restless craving.
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To feel, have, or produce an itch.
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To have a desire to scratch.
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To cause to itch.
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To scratch (an itch).
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To feel or cause an irritating sensation on the skin that makes one want to scratch the affected part.
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To have a restless desire or hankering.
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To make itch.
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To irritate or annoy.
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An irritating sensation on the skin that makes one want to scratch the affected part.
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A restless desire; hankering.

An itch to travel.

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An irritating skin sensation causing a desire to scratch.
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Any of various skin disorders, such as scabies, marked by intense irritation and itching.
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To feel, have, or produce an itch.
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To scratch an itch.
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A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
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A desire or want.
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(intransitive) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
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(intransitive) To want or desire.

He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.

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To cause to feel an itch.

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(colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
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Origin of itch

The verb is from Middle English icchen, ȝicchen, from Old English ġiċċan, ġyċċan (“to itch”), from Proto-Germanic *jukjaną (“to itch”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yeuk (“to itch”), West Frisian jûkje (“to itch”), Dutch jeuken (“to itch”), Low German jocken (“to itch”), German jucken (“to itch”).

Sentence Examples

  • In the bathroom she painted the little bumps, wincing as the sting burned the itch away.

  • Yully concentrated on the small itch in her mind that told her Jule was near.

  • In scabies (itch) it is the best remedy, killing the male parasite, which remains on the surface of the skin.

  • Before Connor had spat out the itch in bitch, Jackson was across the room and had picked him up by the throat.

  • The rigid conservatism that resulted from this attitude served, indeed, a useful purpose in giving weight to Castlereaghs counsels in the European concert; for Metternich at least, wholly occupied with propping up mouldering institutions, could not have worked harmoniously with a minister suspected of an itch for reform.

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