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scour1
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verb
1‘she scoured the cooker and cleaned out the kitchen cupboards’
SYNONYMS
scrub, rub, clean, wash, cleanse, wipe
polish, buff, buff up, shine, burnish
abrade
Scottish, Northern English dight
archaic furbish
scour2
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verb
1‘Christina scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect piece’
SYNONYMS
search, comb, hunt through, rummage through, sift through, go through with a fine-tooth comb, root through, rake through, leave no stone unturned, mine, look all over, look high and low in
ransack, turn upside-down, turn over
drag
Australian, New Zealand informal fossick through
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