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# scouring

«scouring» in Mova's school dictionary: **rubbing hard to make clean and shiny** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (-ing form of scour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Scouring means rubbing hard to make clean and shiny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#m1)

2) Scouring means searching all over a place for someone or something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the work of cleaning pots or tubs, or of sending soldiers to search the land

### examples

- Dick was scouring the pots in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#x1)
- The king set his soldiers scouring the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#x2)
- We are scouring the beach for shells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scouring/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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