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   scour

   /skaʊə/

   verb

   • 1. clean or brighten the surface of (something) by rubbing it hard, typically with an abrasive or detergent: "she scoured the cooker"
   • ▪ remove (dirt or unwanted matter) by scouring: "use an electric toothbrush to scour off plaque"
   • ▪ (of water or a watercourse) make (a channel or pool) by flowing quickly over something and removing soil or rock: "a stream came crashing through a narrow cavern to scour out a round pool below"
   • 2. (of livestock) suffer from diarrhoea: "he went out to deal with piglets who were scouring"
   • ▪ administer a strong purgative to: archaic "he immediately proceeded to scour him with the most potent medicines"

   noun

   • 1. the action of scouring or the state of being scoured, especially by swift-flowing water: "the scour of the tide may cause lateral erosion"
   • ▪ an act of rubbing something hard to clean or brighten it: "give the floor a good scour"
   • 2. diarrhoea in livestock, especially cattle and pigs.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schūren, from Old French escurer, from late Latin excurare ‘clean (off)’, from ex- ‘away’ + curare ‘to clean’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scourer noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

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   What is scour verb?

   • Definition of scour verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary to search a place or thing carefully and completely in order to find somebody/something synonym comb scour something for somebody/something We scoured the area for somewhere to pitch our tent. scour something He had been scouring the papers for weeks, looking for a job.

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   What does scour out mean?

   • scour something (out) to clean something by rubbing its surface hard with rough material I had to scour out the pans. to make a passage, hole, or mark in the ground, rocks, etc. as the result of movement, especially over a long period scour something out The water had raced down the slope and scoured out the bed of a stream.

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   Where did the word scour come from?

   • The other verb scour appeared a century earlier, and may come from the Old Norse skūr, meaning “shower.” ( Skūr is also distantly related to the Old English scūr, the ancestor of our English word shower .)

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   What does scours mean?

   • Usually scours.(used with a singular or plural verb) Veterinary Pathology. diarrhea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection. They scoured the countryside for the lost child. to run or pass quickly over or along. to range about, as in search of something. to move rapidly or energetically.

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   What does scoured mean?

   • to run or pass quickly over or along. to range about, as in search of something. to move rapidly or energetically. Donald Rabin had scoured train after train in Chicago for four hours. She scoured literature, art, philosophy and psychology to describe how society often attaches a moral dimension to illness.

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   Why is there a scour on the channel?

   • Huge scour marks in the bed of the Channel could have been created only by a giant torrent of water. Another $20 million will be spent to replace the scour, or riverbed material, just downriver from the dam. Scour in young calves is caused mainly by parasites and viruses. Of the three animals, one had died of scours and several others appeared ill.

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   to make a passage, hole, or mark in the ground, rocks, etc. as the result of movement, especially over a long period. scour something out The water had raced down the slope and scoured out the bed of a stream. scour something away The rush of water had scoured away the topsoil.

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   Scour can mean to clean, polish, or wash something by scrubbing, or to remove dirt or grease by means of a detergent. It can also mean to clear a channel by flushing, or to range over an area in search of something.