scoured
cleansed or polished by hard rubbing, as with a rough or abrasive material: American society, through advertising, associates the scent of lemon with a freshly scoured kitchen.
cleared or dug out, as by the force of water, glaciers, etc.: Muskeget Channel, located between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, is a deeply scoured channel with strong tidal currents.
(of cotton, wool, etc.) cleaned or made free of impurities, debris, etc., by or as if by washing: When dried, the scoured wool is usually carded and combed before the process of spinning.
cleared or made free of anything undesirable; cleansed: It is from a scoured soul and a sober heart that prayer is engaged.
the simple past tense and past participle of scour1.
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How to use scoured in a sentence
Their customers now understand those risks, too, if they’ve spent hours scouring stores for toilet paper or months waiting for a new refrigerator.
What changes after covid-19? I’m betting on everything. | Megan McArdle | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostThey scoured deeds, newspaper stories and genealogical documents to discover who had lived in it.
This might be Washington’s oldest house, but it came from New England | John Kelly | November 28, 2020 | Washington PostEncouraging vaccine news has Wall Street searching for stocks to play the rebound—scouring the market for names that have been beaten up amid the pandemic but poised to boom once things return to normal.
Bet on these stocks for the millennial-powered COVID recovery, says Goldman’s Katie Koch | Anne Sraders | November 28, 2020 | FortuneThings to consider when buying wireless headphonesAs you begin your journey towards wireless listening, there are a few things you should keep in mind when scouring the virtual shelves.
Best wireless headphones: Five things to consider | Carsen Joenk | November 25, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWhen the pandemic began in March, he scoured studies in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and other top-flight medical journals, preparing himself, and his county, for the virus’s arrival.
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator. | by Annie Waldman and Heather Vogell | November 23, 2020 | ProPublica
There is a large area to be scoured and the amount of time the airplane can spend over its assigned zone is critical.
Once the sand was plowed back onto the beaches, volunteers scoured it for any flotsam that got through the sifting machines.
Superstorm Who? Sandy’s Hard-Hit Beach Towns Reopen for Business | Eliza Shapiro, Josh Dzieza | May 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNasaw has had full access to family documents and scoured the archives.
“The Patriarch”: Joseph Kennedy Sr.’s Outsized Life | Jacob Heilbrunn | November 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMy captors scoured the web for information about me and discovered our history in Bosnia.
Richard Holbrooke's Last Mission in Afghanistan by David Rohde | David Rohde | November 26, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTInvestigators scoured the area over the weekend, questioning her family and friends.
The day dawned with a steady drizzle of rain, and, after a poor attempt at breakfast, I scoured the neighbourhood for a taxi.
They scoured every main artery and side road and cart track for miles in every direction, he and Johnny the Itch.
Again the smoothbore roared and a handful of balls scoured another thicket.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterThe loyalist forces now scoured the insurgent districts, and it was found impossible to prevent many excesses from taking place.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanHe supposed they had scoured all Jursa for a real beauty to dazzle him; but they would discover that it would not work.
The Envoy, Her | Horace Brown Fyfe
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