Found 3 items, similar to scour.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: scour
gahar, gonyok, mengamplasi, menggosok
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: scour
scour
v 1: examine minutely;
“The police scoured the country for the
fugitive”
2: clean with hard rubbing;
“She scrubbed his back” [syn:
scrub]
3: rub hard or scrub;
“scour the counter tops” [syn:
abrade]
4: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid;
“flush the wound with
antibiotics”;
“purge the old gas tank” [syn:
flush,
purge]
scour
n : a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Scour
Scour
\Scour\, v. i.
1. To clean anything by rubbing. --Shak.
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2. To cleanse anything.
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Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth
better. --Bacon.
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3. To be purged freely; to have a diarrh[oe]a.
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4. To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of
something; to scamper.
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So four fierce coursers, starting to the race,
Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.
--Dryden.
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Scour
\Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Scoured; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Scouring.] [Akin to LG. sch["u]ren, D. schuren,
schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly
fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf.
Cure.]
1. 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.
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2. To purge; as, to scour a horse.
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3. 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.
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[I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask,
Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
--Shak.
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4. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It.
scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf.
Excursion.] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to
traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.
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Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope.
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5. To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush.
If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch. --Blackstone.
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Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under
Tumbling.
Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the
lining of a shaft furnace. --Raymond.
Scouring rush. (Bot.) See
Dutch rush, under
Dutch.
Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.
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Scour
\Scour\, n.
1. Diarrh[oe]a or dysentery among cattle.
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2. The act of scouring.
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3. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a
stream below a fall.
If you catch the two sole denizens [trout] of a
particular scour, you will find another pair
installed in their place to-morrow. --Grant Allen.
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