Meanings of scour away in English

Do not use a wire brush, which can scour away the rock itself.

She was able to scour away most of the blood.

He put his nose down and was about to scour away down the lane.

Yet none of these concerns could scour away the look she had seen in Faror Hend's eyes.

They had washed her and dressed her wounds, but they could not scour away the blight on her soul.

Sorrow is a kind of rust in the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.

She knew what she was doing; she knew the value of anger, and how it could scour away other feelings.

The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which resonated in his long bones.

A little above it, was an ancient overfall weir, which had also contributed to scour away the foundations of the piers.

The result might be different should the elands take the alarm at a long distance off, and scour away over the plain.

Haven't you noticed how, in some spots, the current seems to scour away all the mud and leave naked stones and pebbles?

There was a squabble between them, because he chose to scour away to his master's office instead of conducting her home with the honours.

Frank eyed his companion curiously, his face eager in the moonlight, his right hand rubbing his forehead, as if trying to scour away the cobwebs.

The power of women can't be scoured away, however hard we try.

It's as if a storm has scoured away almost all the covering.

The soles of her feet had been scoured away, exposing black bone.