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Scoffing
- verb - laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
- showing your contempt by derision
- treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules"
Scolding
- verb - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- rebuking a person harshly
- reprimanded
- show one's unhappiness or critical attitude; "He scolded about anything that he thought was wrong"; "We grumbled about the increased work load"
Scooping
- verb - get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"
Scooting
- verb - run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
Scorning
- verb - look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
- reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
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
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"
Scowling
- verb - frown with displeasure
- sullen or unfriendly in appearance
Shoading
- - The tracing of veins of metal by shoads.
Shoaling
- verb - become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
- make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"