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. [1913 Webster] 2. To cleanse anything. [1913 Webster] Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3. To be purged freely; to have a diarrh[oe]a. [1913 Webster] 4. To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper. [1913 Webster] So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 5. To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush. If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch. --Blackstone. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 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. [1913 Webster] Scour \Scour\, n. 1. Diarrh[oe]a or dysentery among cattle. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of scouring. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]