scour

«scour» in Mova's school dictionary: to rub something hard until it is clean and shiny — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (scour, scours, scoured, scouring)

meaning for a pupil

1) To scour is to rub something hard until it is clean and shiny. tree →

2) To scour is to search every part of a place carefully and quickly. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the lessons, «scour the country» or «scour the jungle» means search every part of a place for someone or something; in tales the baker scours the oven

examples

• We scour the pans after supper. tree →
• The police scoured the woods for the lost dog. tree →
• Mum scours the sink every Friday. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.