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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



... course I am," said he, in a voice full of feeling that made my very heart creep. "I thought you were a party of Lorge's Dragoons, scouring the country for forage; tracked you the entire day, and have only now come ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... valley below. Only he is healthy who exults in mere animal existence; whose very life is a luxury; who feels a bounding pulse throughout his body; who feels life in every limb, as dogs do when scouring over the field, or as boys do when gliding over fields ...
— An Iron Will • Orison Swett Marden
... more sleep, she rose with a sense of exhilaration which nothing could dampen. She had seen a small mountain church over the Ridge by the spring where her moccasin flowers grew; and if there were preaching in it to-day, the boys and girls scouring the surrounding woods during the intermissions would surely find and carry away the orchids. There was no safety but to ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... Dr. Schweinfurth writes:—"Already had Sir Samuel Baker, with praiseworthy energy, commenced scouring the waters of the Upper Nile, and by capturing all slave-vessels and abolishing a large 'chasua' belonging to the mudir (governor) of Fashoda, had left no doubt as to the ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... never a stanza shall measure The joy of that desperate crew Of four-year-olds scouring for treasure Astride ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 11, 1920 • Various


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