scouring

Noun

(plural scourings)

The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.
(of livestock) Diarrhea.

Verb

Present participle of scour.
Scouring the entire area revealed nothing.

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Sirian is scouring the forest for you!
Martha and Betsy chatted constantly over decorating ideas and their new hobby, scouring the area for antiques.
He paused and brushed wet hair from her face with one hand, scouring her features.
- Cylinder, Charing security against deep scouring of the river-bed in floods.
In New England also a wellestablished drainage undoubtedly prevailed in preglacial times; but partly in consequence of the irregular scouring of the rock floor, and even more because of the very irregular deposition of unstratified and stratified drift in the valleys, the drainage is now in great disorder.

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