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scour

English

  1. 🔊 a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
  2. 🔊 rub hard or scrub
    “scour the counter tops”
  3. 🔊 examine minutely
    “The police scoured the country for the fugitive”
  4. 🔊 rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
    “flush the wound with antibiotics”
  5. 🔊 clean with hard rubbing
    “She scrubbed his back”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 restregar to scour, rub hard, scrub
  2. 🔊 rastrillar to scour, comb (search an area thoroughly)

Similar words

flush purge scrub abrade ablate abrade abrase baptize bark bath bathe beat beat the bushes beeline bite blow blow out bolt buff bullet burnish career chafe clean