Scour
verb
To clean something by rubbing it hard with something rough.
She scoured the oven to make it clean again.
Often appears as...
- scour the sink
- scour the oven
verb
To look around a place carefully in order to find something.
He was scouring the internet for furniture for his new apartment.
Often appears as...
- scour the internet
- scour the room
verb
(In medical) About diarrhoea in animals, often lethal.
The veterinarian said the calf is suffering from scour.
Often appears as...
- suffer from scour
- scour in animals
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Formal
Technical
verb
To cause something to become bare by erosion.
The desert winds scoured the landscape to bare rock.
Often appears as...
- scour the landscape
- scour the earth
verb
To clean something by rubbing it hard with something rough.
She scoured the oven to make it clean again.
Often appears as...
- scour the sink
- scour the oven
verb
To look around a place carefully in order to find something.
He was scouring the internet for furniture for his new apartment.
Often appears as...
- scour the internet
- scour the room
verb
(In medical) About diarrhoea in animals, often lethal.
The veterinarian said the calf is suffering from scour.
Often appears as...
- suffer from scour
- scour in animals
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To cause something to become bare by erosion.
The desert winds scoured the landscape to bare rock.
Often appears as...
- scour the landscape
- scour the earth
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Intensity
Indicates vigorous cleaning, often needing effort and abrasive tools.
You'll need to scour those dirty pans with steel wool.
Pro Tip 2/3Rough Materials
Often involves using abrasive materials like scouring pads or heavy-duty cleaners.
She scoured the grill with a wire brush.
Pro Tip 3/3Restoring Appearance
Used when trying to remove stubborn dirt to restore an object's look.
He scoured the old table until it shone like new.
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Intensity
Indicates vigorous cleaning, often needing effort and abrasive tools.
You'll need to scour those dirty pans with steel wool.
Pro Tip 2/3Rough Materials
Often involves using abrasive materials like scouring pads or heavy-duty cleaners.
She scoured the grill with a wire brush.
Pro Tip 3/3Restoring Appearance
Used when trying to remove stubborn dirt to restore an object's look.
He scoured the old table until it shone like new.
Pro Tip 1/3Cleaning Intensity
Indicates vigorous cleaning, often needing effort and abrasive tools.
You'll need to scour those dirty pans with steel wool.
Pro Tip 2/3Rough Materials
Often involves using abrasive materials like scouring pads or heavy-duty cleaners.
She scoured the grill with a wire brush.
Pro Tip 3/3Restoring Appearance
Used when trying to remove stubborn dirt to restore an object's look.
He scoured the old table until it shone like new.
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Glow-in-the-dark sharks...
And fish are much more interesting than corals, because they have really advanced vision, and some of the fish even have, the way that I was photographing it, they have lenses in their eyes that would magnify the fluorescence. So I wanted to seek this out further. So we designed a new set of gear and we're scouring the reefs around the world,
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Are athletes really...
making players partners in the league, entitled to shares of ticket revenues and television contracts. Suddenly, anybody who could be an NBA player wanted to be, and teams started scouring the globe for the bodies that could help them win championships. Almost overnight, the proportion of men in the NBA
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Where joy hides and how...
and so we hold ourselves back from joy, and we end up in a world that looks like this. But if the aesthetics of joy can be used to help us find more joy in the world around us, then couldn't they also be used to create more joy? I spent that last two years scouring the planet,
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Is this the most...
and quickly sense changes in light. Some had long eye stalks that helped them peep above the muddy sea floor as they burrowed beneath. Others had large dragonfly-like eyes that they probably used to scour the ocean bottom as they swam upside-down in dim waters.
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Baby Elephant's Adorable...
he's just helping her oh it's a trunk coming down that's really wonderful you know what that's a testament to how much Weaver has come on he's pushing herself she's testing her abilities she's back on dry land now it scours tournament
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To Climb the World PIPE...
years ago Marc's been exploring the world for a long time and I consider him probably one of the most prolific exploratory rock climbers out there he's basically scoured the earth in search of rock climbing and some of the most
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Could Sport Fishing...
then it's not because of deep blue. The reason for the attacks remains elusive. But while scouring the ocean for an explanation, experts come across something else that also ensnares large amounts of a tiger shark's prey.
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Inside the new Old World...
something very tangible about these alien worlds and that makes them very special to me I am resurrecting this particular ecosystem through my fieldwork in the Sahara scouring the
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How empowering women and...
Our team has scoured humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions in the atmosphere -- not "someday, maybe, if we're lucky" solutions,
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The Largest Falcon in...
and scoured by freezing winds the island lies at canada's most northern tip extending right up to 84 degrees north it crowns some of the world's most pristine wilderness
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Glow-in-the-dark sharks...
And fish are much more interesting than corals, because they have really advanced vision, and some of the fish even have, the way that I was photographing it, they have lenses in their eyes that would magnify the fluorescence. So I wanted to seek this out further. So we designed a new set of gear and we're scouring the reefs around the world,
Video examples
Are athletes really...
making players partners in the league, entitled to shares of ticket revenues and television contracts. Suddenly, anybody who could be an NBA player wanted to be, and teams started scouring the globe for the bodies that could help them win championships. Almost overnight, the proportion of men in the NBA
Video examples
Where joy hides and how...
and so we hold ourselves back from joy, and we end up in a world that looks like this. But if the aesthetics of joy can be used to help us find more joy in the world around us, then couldn't they also be used to create more joy? I spent that last two years scouring the planet,
Video examples
Is this the most...
and quickly sense changes in light. Some had long eye stalks that helped them peep above the muddy sea floor as they burrowed beneath. Others had large dragonfly-like eyes that they probably used to scour the ocean bottom as they swam upside-down in dim waters.
Video examples
Baby Elephant's Adorable...
he's just helping her oh it's a trunk coming down that's really wonderful you know what that's a testament to how much Weaver has come on he's pushing herself she's testing her abilities she's back on dry land now it scours tournament
Video examples
To Climb the World PIPE...
years ago Marc's been exploring the world for a long time and I consider him probably one of the most prolific exploratory rock climbers out there he's basically scoured the earth in search of rock climbing and some of the most
Video examples
Could Sport Fishing...
then it's not because of deep blue. The reason for the attacks remains elusive. But while scouring the ocean for an explanation, experts come across something else that also ensnares large amounts of a tiger shark's prey.
Video examples
Inside the new Old World...
something very tangible about these alien worlds and that makes them very special to me I am resurrecting this particular ecosystem through my fieldwork in the Sahara scouring the
Video examples
How empowering women and...
Our team has scoured humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw down heat-trapping, climate-changing emissions in the atmosphere -- not "someday, maybe, if we're lucky" solutions,
Video examples
The Largest Falcon in...
and scoured by freezing winds the island lies at canada's most northern tip extending right up to 84 degrees north it crowns some of the world's most pristine wilderness
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Whitney Tilson
American Businessman
The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.
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Geraldine Brooks
Australian Journalist
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?
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Troy Carter
American Producer
I don't think we're out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We're not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities.
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Brad Holland
American Artist
Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
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Richard Ford
American Author
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
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Jami Attenberg
American Author
My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.
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Ben Dolnick
American Writer
I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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Ray Fearon
Actor
I'd like to meet someone. I'm not scouring the streets, but I'll keep an eye out.
Quote examples
Whitney Tilson
American Businessman
The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.
Quote examples
Geraldine Brooks
Australian Journalist
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?
Quote examples
Troy Carter
American Producer
I don't think we're out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We're not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities.
Quote examples
Brad Holland
American Artist
Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
Quote examples
Richard Ford
American Author
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
Quote examples
Jami Attenberg
American Author
My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.
Quote examples
Ben Dolnick
American Writer
I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.
Quote examples
William Shakespeare
English Playwright
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Quote examples
John Ruskin
English Writer
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Quote examples
Ray Fearon
Actor
I'd like to meet someone. I'm not scouring the streets, but I'll keep an eye out.
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