Converse of object

• pick: You know - if you've ever picked the scab of a sore place.

• cause: Moving your mouth can cause the scab to crack.

• form: Cold sores usually start with a tingling, itching sensation on the lip, followed by blisters which weep, forming a scab.

• have: Back to Top My rat has small scabs all over its back.

• get: There are several reasons why rats get scabs, the most obvious being mites which can be picked up from bedding or food.

• soften: A little petroleum jelly applied on the inner side of the nose can also soften scabs.

Adjective modifier

• powdery: Dr. Bus presented a paper on control of powdery scab in the Netherlands by looking at the use of 'trap ' crops.

• small: A tick bite usually looks like a lump with a small scab on the skin surface at the site of the bite.

• black: The coal operators moved in black scabs from further south to break the strike.

• common: A number of Venturia species cause diseases on other species of trees, the most common being apple scab.

Modifies a noun

• mite: However, there is currently no method for rearing sheep scab mites away from sheep.

• labor: On pickets, defense squads controlled by workers need to be set up to stop the police getting scab labor in.

• union: In the middle of a bitter dispute a new scab company union was set up.

• formation: A concomitant dermal invasion by neutrophils and T and B-lymphocytes lead to epithelial infiltration and scab formation.

• bus: Despite the riot police, sheer weight of numbers prevented the scab bus getting through.

• leader: What was the real role of Lynk and Pendergast, the scab UDM leaders before, during and after the strike?

Modifying Another Word

• then: Chicken pox An infectious disease that makes you break out in tiny blisters which then scab over.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• over: Two to three days before the rash appears and before the blisters scab over, the virus can be passed between people.

Noun used with modifier

• sheep: The protein could be used to form the basis of a vaccine against sheep scab.

• apple: A number of Venturia species cause diseases on other species of trees, the most common being apple scab.