Definitions
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
Word origin
From Middle English scǒuren (“to polish, scour; to clean; to beat, whip”), from Middle Dutch scuren, schuren (“to clean; to polish”) or Middle Low German schǖren, of uncertain origin but probably from Old French escurer, from Medieval Latin scūrō, escūrō, excūrō (“to clean off”), from ex- (“thoroughly”) + cūrō (“to arrange, see to, take care of”), from cūra (“care, concern”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”)) + -ō.
Used in a sentence
“He scoured the burnt food from the pan.”
“They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.”
“There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Scrub clean”5 letters
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