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scour
1[ skouuhr, skou-er ]
verb (used with object)
- to remove dirt, grease, etc., from or to cleanse or polish by hard rubbing, as with a rough or abrasive material:
to scour pots and pans.
Synonyms: , , ,
- to remove (dirt, grease, etc.) from something by hard rubbing:
to scour grease from pots and pans.
- to clear or dig out (a channel, drain, etc.) as by the force of water, by removing debris, etc.
- to purge thoroughly, as an animal.
- to clear or rid of what is undesirable:
to scour the nation of spies.
- to remove by or as if by cleansing; get rid of.
- to clean or rid of debris, impurities, etc., by or as if by washing, as cotton or wool.
- Metallurgy. (of the contents of a blast furnace) to rub against and corrode (the refractory lining).
verb (used without object)
- to rub a surface in order to cleanse or polish it.
- to remove dirt, grease, etc.
- to become clean and shiny.
- to be capable of being cleaned by rubbing:
The roasting pan scours easily.
- (of a plow, cultivator, etc.) to pass through the ground without soil clinging to the blade.
- (of a plow, shovel, etc.) to become polished from use.
noun
- the act of scouring.
- the place scoured.
- an apparatus or material used in scouring; scourer:
Sand is a good scour.
- the erosive force of moving water, as in a river or sea.
- Usually scours. (used with a singular or plural verb) Veterinary Pathology. diarrhea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection.
scour
2[ skouuhr, skou-er ]
verb (used with object)
- to range over, as in a search:
They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
Synonyms: , , ,
- to run or pass quickly over or along.
verb (used without object)
- to range about, as in search of something.
- to move rapidly or energetically.
scour
1/ 첹ʊə /
verb
- to clean or polish (a surface) by washing and rubbing, as with an abrasive cloth
- to remove dirt from or have the dirt removed from
- tr to clear (a channel) by the force of water; flush
- tr to remove by or as if by rubbing
- intr (of livestock, esp cattle) to have diarrhoea
- tr to cause (livestock) to purge their bowels
- tr to wash (wool) to remove wax, suint, and other impurities
noun
- the act of scouring
- the place scoured, esp by running water
- something that scours, such as a cleansing agent
- often plural prolonged diarrhoea in livestock, esp cattle
scour
2/ 첹ʊə /
verb
- to range over (territory), as in making a search
- to move swiftly or energetically over (territory)
Derived Forms
- ˈdzܰ, noun
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Example Sentences
I even scoured the real estate section of the classifieds for potential store-fronts, convinced I just had to find the listings other people overlooked.
As we were scouring the racks from Archived, a rare designer fashion and furniture showroom, one of my Design.Space companions, an editor, noted: “Alex Israel just took his glasses off.”
He scours newspapers for faces, tears them out with his hands and mounts them to sparse, solid-colored backgrounds.
He is serving as a policy advisor while his Department of Government Efficiency, popularly know as DOGE, scours the federal bureaucracy for $1 trillion in savings.
He says he was scouring a field with a metal detector on the Danish island of Taasinge, when he unearthed the metal object.
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