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v. To clean, polish, or wash by scrubbing vigorously: scour a dirty oven.

v. To remove by scrubbing: scour grease from a pan.

v. To remove dirt or grease from (cloth or fibers) by means of a detergent.

v. To clean (wheat) before the milling process.

v. To clear (an area) by freeing of weeds or other vegetation.

v. To clear (a channel or pipe) by flushing.

verb-intransitive. To scrub something in order to clean or polish it.

verb-intransitive. To have diarrhea. Used of livestock.

n. A scouring action or effect.

n. A place that has been scoured, as by flushing with water.

n. A cleansing agent for wool.

n. Diarrhea in livestock.

v. To search through or over thoroughly: The detective scoured the scene of the crime for clues.

v. To range over (an area) quickly and energetically.

verb-intransitive. To range over or about an area, especially in a search.

verb-intransitive. To move swiftly; scurry.

v. To clean, polish, or wash something by scrubbing it vigorously.

v. To search an area thoroughly.

v. Of livestock, to suffer from diarrhea.

v. To move swiftly.

v. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.

v. To purge.

v. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away.

v. To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly.

v. To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush.

verb-intransitive. To clean anything by rubbing.

verb-intransitive. To cleanse anything.

verb-intransitive. To be purged freely; to have a diarrhœa.

verb-intransitive. To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.

n. Diarrhœa or dysentery among cattle.

n. The act of scouring.

n. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall.

To cleanse by hard rubbing; clean by friction; make clean and bright on the surface by rubbing; brighten.

To cleanse from grease and dirt by rubbing or scrubbing thoroughly with soap, washing, rinsing, etc.; cleanse by scrubbing and the use of certain chemical appliances: as, to scour blankets, carpets, articles of dress, etc.; to scour woolens.

To cleanse or clean out by flushing, or by a violent flood of water.

To purge thoroughly or with violence; purge drastically.

To cleanse thoroughly in any way; free entirely from impurities, or whatever obstructs or is undesirable; clear; sweep clear; rid.

To remove by scouring; cleanse away; obliterate; efface.

To run over and scatter; clean out.

To rub a surface for the purpose of cleansing it.

To cleanse cloth; remove dirt or grease from a texture.

To be purged thoroughly or violently; use strong purgatives.

n. The clearing action of a strong, swift current through a narrow channel; the removal of more or less of the material at the bottom of a river or tidal channel by the action of a current of water flowing over it with sufficient velocity to produce this effect.

n. A kind of diarrhea or dysentery among cattle or other animals; violent purging.

n. The material used in scouring or cleansing woolens, etc.

To run with celerity; scamper; scurry off or along.

To rove or range for the purpose of sweeping or taking something.

To run quickly over or along, especially in quest or as if in quest of something.

To pass through the soil without the latter adhering, the blade being thus rubbed bright: said of an agricultural implement.

n. The violent removal of sand by the wind, especially when it blows through a funnel-shaped pass or canon.

v. clean with hard rubbing

n. a place that is scoured (especially by running water)

v. examine minutely

v. rub hard or scrub

v. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

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scoured    scouring    scours   

topographic point    place    spot    search    seek    look for    rub    rinse    rinse off   

remove    clear    wash    evacuate    clean    sweep    scoured wool   

scourer    scours   

purge    flush    scamper    run    traverse    evacuate   

Auer    Bower    Gower    Power    bour    bower    cower    dauer    devour    dour   

tainting    chromaticism    griminess    lulling    servira    shapelessness    inexorability    website/blog    fancifulness    going-over