scratch **
scrape **
scratch up

That was a lot of money for a man in his circumstances to scratch up.

My father came home a little scratched up, but highly amused.

Maybe I could scratch up information to burn the drug ring.

"What did Jason say when you asked where he got scratched up?"

You want to take a close look at my face and see if it's scratched up very badly?

That would keep animals from scratching it up for a few weeks.

If his legs were getting scratched up, he didn't seem to mind.

We started at the bottom and scratched our way up.

I think you could scratch up a lot of things.

So he wouldn't get scratched up walking through the forest.