Associations to the word «Scour»

Wiktionary

SCOUR, verb. To clean, polish, or wash something by scrubbing it vigorously.
SCOUR, verb. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off.
SCOUR, verb. To search an area thoroughly.
SCOUR, verb. (ambitransitive) To move swiftly over; to brush along.
SCOUR, verb. (intransitive) (veterinary medicine) Of livestock, to suffer from diarrhea.
SCOUR, verb. (transitive) (veterinary medicine) To purge.
SCOUR, verb. (obsolete) To cleanse.
SCOUR, noun. The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
SCOUR, noun. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall.

Dictionary definition

SCOUR, noun. A place that is scoured (especially by running water).
SCOUR, verb. Examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive".
SCOUR, verb. Clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back".
SCOUR, verb. Rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops".
SCOUR, verb. Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin