Itched vs Inched - What's the difference?
itched | inched |
(itch)
A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
A desire or want.
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To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
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To want or desire.
To cause to feel an itch.
(colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
* 2002 , M D Huddleston, Missing Paige :
* 2002 January 4, "Cyd" (username), Itching'', in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, ''Usenet :
* 2003 November 21, "Jim Patterson" (username), Behavior Therapy for Itchy Clothes?'', in alt.support.ocd, ''Usenet :
* 2003 , Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu :
* 2004 , Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail :
(inch)
Having the length of a certain number of inches.
As verbs the difference between itched and inched
is that itched is past tense of itch while inched is past tense of inch.As an adjective inched is
having the length of a certain number of inches.itched
English
Verb
(head)itch
English
(wikipedia itch)Alternative forms
* (noun) (l), (l), (l) (in Scotland)Noun
(es)Derived terms
* barber's itch * itchy * jock itch * seven-year itchVerb
(es)- Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch . Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!
- He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.
- "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.
- I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!
- Basically I go through a half hour of trying to figure out of it is an fake OCD itch or a regular itch before I itch it (if I determine it's a "fake" itch, then I try not to itch it).
- Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.
- But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.
