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 →

2) Scouring means searching all over a place for someone or something. tree →

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 →
• The king set his soldiers scouring the country. tree →
• We are scouring the beach for shells. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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