Scab
noun
A dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing.
Don't pick at the scab or the wound could get infected.
Often appears as...
- pick a scab
- healing scab
noun
A worker who does not join a labor strike or who replaces another worker who is on strike.
The strikers were angry at the scabs who crossed the picket line
Often appears as...
- cross the picket line
- strike breaker
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A contemptible or despicable person.
He's a scab, he cheated on her multiple times.
Often appears as...
- cheating scab
- lying scab
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To form a scab or become covered by a scab.
The cut had already started to scab after a day.
Often appears as...
- scab over
- begin to scab
noun
A dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing.
Don't pick at the scab or the wound could get infected.
Often appears as...
- pick a scab
- healing scab
noun
A worker who does not join a labor strike or who replaces another worker who is on strike.
The strikers were angry at the scabs who crossed the picket line
Often appears as...
- cross the picket line
- strike breaker
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A contemptible or despicable person.
He's a scab, he cheated on her multiple times.
Often appears as...
- cheating scab
- lying scab
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To form a scab or become covered by a scab.
The cut had already started to scab after a day.
Often appears as...
- scab over
- begin to scab
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Healing Indication
The word 'scab' is often used to signal that a wound is healing.
Her knee was better; a scab indicated the skin was mending.
Pro Tip 2/3Don't Remove
It's advised not to remove a scab as it can cause scarring or infection.
Let the scab fall off naturally to avoid a scar.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible Healing
'Scab' conveys the visible process of recovery, often after an injury.
The visible scab on her arm showed she was healing from the fall.
Pro Tip 1/3Healing Indication
The word 'scab' is often used to signal that a wound is healing.
Her knee was better; a scab indicated the skin was mending.
Pro Tip 2/3Don't Remove
It's advised not to remove a scab as it can cause scarring or infection.
Let the scab fall off naturally to avoid a scar.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible Healing
'Scab' conveys the visible process of recovery, often after an injury.
The visible scab on her arm showed she was healing from the fall.
Pro Tip 1/3Healing Indication
The word 'scab' is often used to signal that a wound is healing.
Her knee was better; a scab indicated the skin was mending.
Pro Tip 2/3Don't Remove
It's advised not to remove a scab as it can cause scarring or infection.
Let the scab fall off naturally to avoid a scar.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible Healing
'Scab' conveys the visible process of recovery, often after an injury.
The visible scab on her arm showed she was healing from the fall.
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
mound from the crazy crazy Mongoose and you can see my my shadow hello shadow but pretty scabs so pretty has two cubs and she has a male and a female so the male is Swasey that helps you out a lot easier because also Swasey sounds a bit more masculine at least in my opinion
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Can we eat to starve...
In women, blood vessels grow every month, to build the lining of the uterus. During pregnancy, they form the placenta, which connects mom and baby. And after injury, blood vessels actually have to grow under the scab in order to heal a wound.
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How we conquered the...
The unlucky infected developed fevers, vomiting, and rashes. 30% of infected people died during the second week of infection. Survivors bore scars and scabs for the rest of their lives. Smallpox had arrived.
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
mound from the crazy crazy Mongoose and you can see my my shadow hello shadow but pretty scabs so pretty has two cubs and she has a male and a female so the male is Swasey that helps you out a lot easier because also Swasey sounds a bit more masculine at least in my opinion
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Can we eat to starve...
In women, blood vessels grow every month, to build the lining of the uterus. During pregnancy, they form the placenta, which connects mom and baby. And after injury, blood vessels actually have to grow under the scab in order to heal a wound.
Video examples
How we conquered the...
The unlucky infected developed fevers, vomiting, and rashes. 30% of infected people died during the second week of infection. Survivors bore scars and scabs for the rest of their lives. Smallpox had arrived.
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Quote examples
Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.
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Ian Gillan
English Musician
If you've got a wound, and it's just about to heal up, and it's got a nice scab on it, and you think in two or three days, that's gonna be completely healed, then somebody comes along and pokes it with a stick, and it opens up again. And that's what happens with the Ritchie-and-Deep Purple situation.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions of flat red spots on the skin that turn into pustules and then into scabs - a two-week process during which the disease is highly contagious.
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Bill Buford
American Author
When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
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Karl Malone
American Athlete
Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.
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David Shields
American Author
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
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Jack London
American Novelist
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken pox appears in the mouth and throat, face, and forearms, and spreads to the trunk and legs. As patients recover, scabs break and pitted scars appear.
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Ian Gillan
English Musician
If you've got a wound, and it's just about to heal up, and it's got a nice scab on it, and you think in two or three days, that's gonna be completely healed, then somebody comes along and pokes it with a stick, and it opens up again. And that's what happens with the Ritchie-and-Deep Purple situation.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions of flat red spots on the skin that turn into pustules and then into scabs - a two-week process during which the disease is highly contagious.
Quote examples
Bill Buford
American Author
When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
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Karl Malone
American Athlete
Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.
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David Shields
American Author
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.
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Jack London
American Novelist
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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