1
[ verb ] examine minutely

Examples

"The police scoured the country for the fugitive"

Used in print

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

We scour literature for them ; here we find stored the wisdom of great minds .

Related terms

search scouring

2
[ verb ] clean with hard rubbing

Synonyms

scrub

Examples

"She scrubbed his back"

Used in print

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

Argiento had been trained so rigorously by the Jesuits that Michelangelo was unable to change his habits : up before dawn to scrub the floors , whether they were dirty or not ; water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every_day , the pots scoured with river sand after each meal .

Related terms

rub holystone scrub scrubber scrub_brush

3
[ verb ] rub hard or scrub

Synonyms

abrade

Examples

"scour the counter tops"

Related terms

rub abrader

4
[ verb ] rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

Synonyms

purge flush

Examples

"flush the wound with antibiotics" "purge the old gas tank"

Related terms

rinse purge

5
[ noun ] a place that is scoured (especially by running water)

Related terms

topographic_point

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Rhymes with

cower

Phonetic and Homophones

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S K AW1 ER0

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