to scour
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4.8
- verb
- /skaʊər/
:
fregar
- To prepare for rebuilding, workers first cleaned and scoured the walls and plaster features of the original house.
Examples
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She scoured the kitchen until every surface sparkled.
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Sunburned and sore, dripping sweat in the seething July heat, I scoured the house with an inch-and-a-half scraper.
Academic text (2000) -
You will scour this building clean.
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- The Miracle Brush can scour everything from bottles...
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Give me 50 of your men, and I'll scour the forest till it's clean of this vermin.
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Scour the pots and pans.
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I'll scour the field.
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Scour that deck.
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Boyette is supposed to scour the pots and pans, too, once a week, outside at the water pump.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the mornings, I scoured the breakfast pans, whether or not it was my turn.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
242
1.0
To move a brush across something to clean or paint it
227
1.0
To clean a floor or surface by brushing away dirt with a broom
168
2.7
To clean something by running water through it
62
1.2
To rub material off a surface with something hard or sharp
55
1.0
To clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush and water
22
4.0
To clean a surface or put liquid on it using a cotton stick
5
8.1
The surface wears away when something rubs or scrapes it
1
2.5
To remove dirt or stains by rubbing hard with a brush
1
8.9
To remove a dirty layer from the top of a liquid
To clean something very well by scrubbing or washing
To scrape a surface firmly to remove paint or rust
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Etymology
Scour comes from an old Norse word skura meaning 'to wash' or 'to run', and it kept the idea of hard cleaning. So to scour a pan is like rubbing and washing it until the dirt is gone.