Associations to the word «Scours»

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.

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".