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Meanings of scour in English

Catalan
netejar

Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.

netejar
Portuguese
esfregar
Catalan
refregar

Clean with hard rubbing.

esfregar
Synonyms
Examples for "flush"
Examples for "flush"
1
The council said the public needed to flush their pipes out today.
Radio NZ
2
Add potatoes and level off water so water is flush with potatoes.
Radio NZ
3
There had been a flush in it; there was dash in it.
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
4
Where possible, save the grey water from your washing machine to flush.
The South African
5
Long-term solutions include installing toilets that use less than 6L per flush.
The South African
1
Ask China, which has long recognised the value of a strategic purge.
Reuters
2
The government also engaged in a major purge of the state media.
The Irish Times
3
It took a long time to purge the water from his body.
Neverwhere
4
When the purge ended, the numbers fell far short of those expected.
American-made: the enduring legacy of the wpa : when fdr put the...
5
This weapon array is different than the others; designed to purge everything.
Halo Silentium
Portuguese
esfregar
Catalan
fregar

Rub hard or scrub.

esfregar
Usage of scour in English
1
Police, diving crews and emergency services continue to scour Voelklip on Wednesday.
The South African
2
The men saluted and left in various directions to scour the country.
The Romance of Elaine / Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
3
It'll take weeks to scour the psychic stain out of the area.
A Hard Day’s Knight
4
They were to scour the mountains upon opposite sides of the plain.
The Return of Tarzan
5
It is annoying and difficult to scour around after hogs, in armor.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
6
Now I scour the forest with leaping, now the waters with running.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
7
When abroad, I scour newsagents for a copy of The Irish Times.
The Irish Times
8
Elsewhere, Reygadas had to scour the mountain villages for his supporting players.
The Guardian
9
He could rack his memory, scour it, coax it: to no avail.
The sonderberg case
10
It may be of no use, but we will scour the city.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
11
Mrs. Lee, hiding her concern, directed the children to scour the neighborhood.
Keineth
12
His audience had dispersed to scour the valleys for signatures for Jim.
Still Jim
13
I also enlisted the inmate librarians to scour the library for cookbooks.
Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
14
Hurl squinted to scour the ghostly shades of trees lining the shores.
Return of the Crimson Guard
15
But we'll nab them if we have to scour the whole country.
Tom Swift and His Airship
16
We can scour the entire planet and make sure he is killed.
Navigators of Dune
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Translations for scour
Portuguese
esfregar
Scour through the time
Scour across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common