Scouring

Quick meaning: Scouring is a noun meaning The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Diarrhea. (Now used only of livestock, though also sometimes used of humans into the 1600s.)
2. Erosion by water, especially in watercourses.
3. present participle and gerund of scour

Example Sentences

Scouring the entire area revealed nothing.

For that kind of lax and scouring called bloody flux, see the article BLOODY FLUX.

Thus in 1670 the London bills ascribe 142 deaths to “bloody flux, scouring, and flux,” and 3,690 to “griping in the guts.”

It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.

Word Forms

• scourings

Synonyms for scouring

Depending on context, synonyms include scrub, scrubbing.

Antonyms for scouring

Common opposites include perennial, annual.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scrubbing, scrub, degreasing, touring, wandering, pickling.

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