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Scouring   /skˈaʊərɪŋ/   Listen
Scouring

noun
1.
Moving over territory to search for something.
2.
The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water.  Synonyms: scrub, scrubbing.


Scour

verb
(past & past part. scoured; pres. part. scouring)
1.
Examine minutely.
2.
Clean with hard rubbing.  Synonym: scrub.
3.
Rub hard or scrub.  Synonym: abrade.
4.
Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid.  Synonyms: flush, purge.  "Purge the old gas tank"



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"Scouring" Quotes from Famous Books



... He seems to have cut his way through the police and got over the wall by a ladder they left behind them. They are scouring the country—Miss Denison! Eva! ...
— Dead Men Tell No Tales • E. W. Hornung
... cautiously, "that they are scouring Breakwater for things to decorate the machines with. I am glad that I entrusted the Whirlwind to Tillie - she is so artistically practical that she will be sure to avoid making holes in the car ...
— The Motor Girls on a Tour • Margaret Penrose
... helping themselves out of the same vessel, and the little children put in their dirty hands to dig out of the mess at their pleasure. I thought to myself, How light the labour of such a house as this! Little sweeping, no washing of floors, and as to scouring the table, I believe it was a thing ...
— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth
... gained the casement. Softly raising his head, he peeped within. The room was full of music; he seemed to grow blind for a moment, when lo! upon the kitchen-table sat the mysterious songster, an ebony-hued negress, scouring the tinware, and singing away. Just as he was peering through the window, the ebony songster discovered him. The soldier's limbs sank beneath him, and the black specimen ...
— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett
... Worn as he was by perpetual labour and anxiety, Henri seemed never to close his eyes in sleep during this anxious season. He felt to the full his responsibility, from the hour of the first discovery of French treachery towards his friend. By day, he was scouring the country in the direction of Toussaint's rides. By night, he was patrolling round the estate. It seemed as if his eye pierced the deepest shades of the woods; as if his ear caught up whispers from the council-chamber in Tortuga. ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau


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