0 past simple and past participle of scotch --
1 to prevent something from being believed or being done: --
What must at all costs be scotched is the natural inequality of the individual.
I doubt whether the snake has been scotched.
No doubt, if such rumours were around, it is as well to have them scotched.
I would be the first to wish for any proposal to be scotched that would increase the number of appeals.
I very much hope that this idea of a tax will be scotched here and now.
I do not think the idea ought to be scotched purely on the argument of there being difficulty in the way of a fair distribution.
If we have not entirely solved and scotched the germ of inflation, we have at least checked the more violent forms of the disease.
The surprise result definitely scotched all the allegations that the election would be stolen by cheating by the authorities.
