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# scour

«scour» in Mova's school dictionary: **to rub something hard until it is clean and shiny** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (scour, scours, scoured, scouring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To scour is to rub something hard until it is clean and shiny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scour/#m1)

2) To scour is to search every part of a place carefully and quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scour/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, «scour the country» or «scour the jungle» means search every part of a place for someone or something; in tales the baker scours the oven

### examples

- We scour the pans after supper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scour/#x1)
- The police scoured the woods for the lost dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scour/#x2)
- Mum scours the sink every Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scour/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.