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Scouring

noun

Moving over territory to search for something.

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)

Examine minutely.

Clean with hard rubbing. Synonym: scrub.

Rub hard or scrub. Synonym: abrade.

Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid. Synonyms: flush, purge. "Purge the old gas tank"

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"Scouring" Quotes from Famous Books

... wall, and made all level betwixt the Piraic and Sacred Gate, about midnight Sylla entered the breach, with all the terrors of trumpets and cornets sounding, with the triumphant shout and cry of an army let loose to spoil and slaughter, and scouring through the streets with swords drawn. There was no numbering the slain; the amount is to this day conjectured only from the space of ground overflowed with blood. For without mentioning the execution done in other quarters of the city, the blood that was shed about ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... may guess; and we spare no pains to attain it, whether in the names or In the descriptions supplied to the newspapers. 'William Arbuthnot Blain, Esq.'—you have heard of Balzac's scouring Paris for a name for one of his characters. I assure you I scoured England for William Arbuthnot Blain—'identified with the movement for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes'—or is that Richard Farrant, Esq.? In any case, what more likely, on the face of it? 'Frederick ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... hands," he said, "for I am covered with grease and oil. What weather! Just think, I've been scouring the bells ever since early this morning. ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... hurried away over the stream towards the South. Not ten minutes had elapsed before they were pursued by their friends; but in that short time their captors had effected their escape, and morning dawned on the agonized pioneers still scouring the forest in search of the lost ones. They were ably seconded by the Arapahoes, a few of them having been left in charge of Anne and Benny who, having been concealed in one of the wagons, had been saved. Those stolen were Mrs. ...

— The American Family Robinson - or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West • D. W. Belisle

... February, 1863, the rebels under Forrest and Wheeler made a third attack on Fort Donelson. They were forced to retire, leaving a large number of their dead on the field, but fortunately none of the men under Capt. Shelly were injured. Nearly the entire spring and summer of 1863 was spent in scouring the country in the vicinity of the Tennessee river, sometimes on guard duty, sometimes on the picket line and often in battle. They were frequently days and nights without food or sleep, but ever kept themselves in readiness for an attack from the wily foes. Opposed ...

— Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul • Frank Moore

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