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Withdraw from contest with slight injury (7)

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scratch

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(Other definitions for scratch that I've seen before include "Mark with something sharp" , "Slight wound; score" , "Score - postpone indefinitely" , "Score with a sharp point" , "not much of a handicap" .)

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