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# scoured

«scoured» in Mova's school dictionary: **rubbed hard until clean and shiny** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (past form of scour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Scoured means rubbed hard until clean and shiny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoured/#m1)

2) Scoured means searched every part of a place carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoured/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a floor or pot that has been rubbed clean; or a land that has been searched from end to end

### examples

- The floors were scoured and bright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoured/#x1)
- Ralph scoured the seas for ships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoured/#x2)
- We scoured the garden for my lost ring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoured/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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