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scabbed
[ skab-id, skabd ]
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- scabbed·ness noun
- un·scabbed adjective
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Example Sentences
Anbury causes a scabbed and broken skin, and tubercular growths on the roots and at the base of the bulb.
The inside has rather the look of meat, for it is reddish and all streaked and scabbed with this pox and with discoloured chalk.
Fed by slaves from the cradle, hag-ridden by his vices; a purple young bully, a product of filthy sloth, scabbed with privilege.
She had left a great bed of coals on the hearth, and the glow shone redly on his frost-scabbed face.
What, shall I dishonour my fair sumptuous and gay house with such a scabbed creephedge as he?
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