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Scourges
- noun - a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
- a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- punish severely; excoriate
- something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"
- whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"
Scouring
- verb - clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back"
- examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive"
- moving over territory to search for something; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing"
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
- rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"
- the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
Scouters
- noun - an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
Scouting
- verb - explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- exploring in order to gain information; "scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous"
Scrub Up
- verb - wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
Scrubbed
- verb - clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back"
- made clean by scrubbing; "fresh-scrubbed floors"; "boys with scrubbed necks and faces"
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"
- wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
Scrubber
- noun - a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning
- a purifier that removes impurities from a gas
- a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck)
Scrumped
- unknown - Past tense of scrump: to take fruit from a tree that is not yours.
SCRUNCHY
- unknown - circular band of fabric-covered elastic used for fastening the hair
Scrupled
- verb - have doubts about
- hesitate on moral grounds; "The man scrupled to perjure himself"
- raise scruples; "He lied and did not even scruple about it"