Scouring is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCOURING in dictionary:

VERB:
• clean or brighten the surface of (something) by rubbing it hard, typically with an abrasive or detergent
• remove (dirt or unwanted matter) by scouring
• (of water or a watercourse) make (a channel or pool) by flowing quickly over something and removing soil or rock
• (of livestock) suffer from diarrhoea
• administer a strong purgative to
• subject (a place, text, etc.) to a thorough search in order to locate something
• move rapidly in a particular direction, especially in search or pursuit of someone or something
NOUN:
• material removed by scouring
• the action of scouring or the state of being scoured, especially by swift-flowing water
• an act of rubbing something hard to clean or brighten it
• diarrhoea in livestock, especially cattle and pigs.
• moving over territory to search for something
• the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cleanse or polish by hard rubbing

Words related to SCOURING

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Words that contain SCOURING

scourings12 bescouring15 discouring14 offscouring20 offscourings21

How to use SCOURING in a sentence

• He went back to the pine grove, beside himself with fright, scouring the entire domain.
• At the next moment, he turned his horse, and was seen scouring along the road towards the Hut.
• Isolated words or phrases in the lines I read sent questions scouring across my mind, sure sign that the deeper part of me was restless and ill at ease.
• Bold voyagers were scouring the world, pioneers of those enterprises of discovery which had appeared for a while abandoned during the seventeenth century.
• Here the Portuguese set him to work at once, scouring pots and kettles and pans, and he toiled without complaint until his arms ached.
• Other women come in to do the extra work, the cleaning up and scouring, and so on.
• But Commander Farragut would not lose a day nor an hour in scouring the seas in which the animal had been sighted.
• The scouring of the step had left a moist puddle below it, where the ground, no doubt, had been dry and hard on the evening of the murder.
• If the room contains a marble mantel, it can be cleaned with sapolio or almost any good scouring powder, and tiles washed with soap and water.
• As usual, however, on the occasion of any great calamity, a crowd was scouring the streets, whose sole object was plunder.
• Most of the soldiers had left it and were then out engaged in the business of scouring the country.
• Tired of scouring the highway, Gilderoy resolved upon another enterprise.
• They knew that other men would be scouring up and down the main road, as well as through the fields, and in fact every place where David might have strayed.
• Alexander and Sir George had been scouring the roads since a very early lunch in search of the hounds, and her mind reposed on the thought of the hot cakes.
• THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE, OR THE LONG VACATION HOLIDAY OF A LONDON CLERK.
• I spent the next half-hour in scouring the valley from end to end, yet when I had finished I was compelled to admit that I was no nearer to a solution than before.
• A band of them was scouring the country, thirty or more, down from Mongolia.
• Wool scouring takes place at two stages in the process of manufacture into cloth.
• The iron-copper-logwood blacks are not so fast to acids as the chrome-logwood blacks, but they are rather faster to light and air, and equally so to scouring and milling.
• They continually harassed the scouring detachments, by firing upon them from woods and sugar plantations, which last the English burned about their ears in resentment.
• A man-of-war had entered the roadstead, and her powerful lamp was now scouring sea and coast for the missing launch.
• By nine the light craft had all come in after scouring the sea for Germans.
• In little squads a dozen parties were scouring the rugged canons and cliffs for signs, and finding nothing.
• Poulain made his rounds on foot, scouring the Marais like a lean cat, and obtained from two to forty sous out of a score of visits.
• But the sudden shadow of a coyote checked the scouring feet of this swift Camilla, and sent her back precipitately to the buggy.
• During the week that he had been scouring Paris anew, he had each time brought back with him the feverish excitement of the day.
• A company of police were scouring the neighborhood in search of colored people, several of whom were seized while at their work near by, and brought in.
• For background my scouring had brought to light a group of buildings, and among them just such a church as this, with just such a belfry.

Similar words containing SCOUR without suffix ing

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