scab

Examples

• All

• Don't touch it, not until the scab falls off.

  Addams Family Values (1993)

• Patsy looked in the mirror and touched the soft scab forming on his nose.

  Fiction book (1995)

• You could pick that scab on your arm.

  My Girl (1991)

• Almost like a cut where the scab has been pulled off... and it's seeping blood.

  Timecode (2000)

• I washed my hands so much that week that I had scabs on my knuckles.

• Most of her woefully thin body was covered with scabs from hundreds of ant bites.

  Fiction book (2000)

• I could see the red from his sweater and his blue pants, and there was a scab on his forehead that hadn't healed - from a bicycle accident - and I could feel that scab when I kissed him, but when I looked at him, it was... well, it was out of focus.

  Blue Car (2003)

• The doctor advised not to pick at the scab on my knee to avoid infection.

• The scab that developed from the scrape was slowly starting to fall off.

Synonyms

C

croute

vsscab

• Archaic

9.9

A hard dry scab that forms over a cut as it heals

is harder and more solid than a simple crust

Compounds

R

russet scab

• Specialized

9.6

A disease of potatoes that makes rough brown patches on their skins

P

potato scab bacteria

• Specialized

5.1

Germs that make brown rough patches on potatoes

W

wheat scab

• Specialized

6.8

A disease that attacks wheat heads, damages grain, and lowers yield

How Hard

eschar

• Specialized

1 9.9

scab

24 2.2

crust

91 1.1

Surface Forms

Etymology