Crossword-Solution: SCOUR 5 letters, 178 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Scour	v. t.	To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
Scour	v. t.	To purge; as, to scour a horse.
Scour	v. t.	To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away.
Scour	v. t.	To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.
Scour	v. i.	To clean anything by rubbing.
Scour	v. i.	To cleanse anything.
Scour	v. i.	To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
Scour	v. i.	To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.
Scour	n.	Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SCOUR	anagram	CORUS, ORCUS

We have 178 clues for the answer “SCOUR”

Clue	Answers
Clean abrasively	1 answer
Clean by scrubbing	1 answer
Clean deeply	1 answer
Clean energetically	1 answer
Clean extensively	1 answer
Clean pots	1 answer
Clean the cookware	1 answer
Clean the frying pan	1 answer
Clean the pots	1 answer
Clean the pots and pans	1 answer
Clean the sink	1 answer
Clean the tub	1 answer
Clean through vigorous rubbing and polishing	1 answer
Clean with abrasive	1 answer
Clean with elbow grease, as a greasy pot	1 answer
Clean with steel wool, say	1 answer
Clean, and how	1 answer
Clean, as dirty pots	1 answer
Clean, as pots	1 answer
Clean, but good	1 answer
Cleanse completely	1 answer
Cleanse or polish by hard rubbing	1 answer
Comb well	1 answer
Deep clean	1 answer
Do a deep clean	1 answer
Do a kitchen job	1 answer
Do a scullery job	1 answer
Do rub-a-dub-dub	1 answer
Do the pots and pans	1 answer
Get rid of some pot stickers?	1 answer
Go over thoroughly	1 answer
Look high and low (for)	1 answer
Make clean and bright	1 answer
Make pots shine	1 answer
Polish thoroughly.	1 answer
Put Ajax to work	1 answer
Rake with hostile fire.	1 answer
Range about in search of something.	1 answer
Range over in search	1 answer
Range over, as in search.	1 answer
Really scrub	1 answer
Really scrub, as a tub	1 answer
Rub and rub	1 answer
Rub and rub and rub	1 answer
Rub to clean	1 answer
Rub with elbow grease	1 answer
Rub, rub, rub	1 answer
Scrub a tub, maybe	1 answer
Scrub energetically	1 answer
Scrub hard	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATREE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SCOUR (5)

Foaming with anger, Achmet Zek called his followers to horse, and though the night was pitchy black they set out to scour the adjoining forest for their quarry.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

When great with young they wander nigh their time, Let no man suffer them to drag the yoke In heavy wains, nor leap across the way, Nor scour the meads, nor swim the rushing flood.

The Georgics Virgil 2008

They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.

The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1995

Mullet; “can’t you imagine the headline, ‘Valuable Hunter Stolen by Suffragettes’? The police would scour the countryside till they found the animal.” “Well, Jessie must try and get it back from Penricarde on the plea that it’s an old favourite.

Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011

Henceforth the spotty horse would scour along far-distant plains and know the homesickness of alien stables; but Potiphar, though never again would he paw the arena when bull-fights were on the bill, was spared maltreatment by town-bred strangers, quite capable of mistaking him for a cow.

Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 2008

Quotes with SCOUR (3)

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…

Gerard Nolst Trenite Drop your Foreign Accent

The world is as it used to be:“All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They do no more for Christés sake Than you who are helpless in such matters.“That this is not the judgment-hour For some of them’s a blessed thing, For if it were they’d have to scour Hell’s floor for so much threatening....“Ha, ha. It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet (if indeed I ever do; for you are men, And rest eternal sorely need).

Thomas Hardy

Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")

Erik Pevernagie

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 237 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).