scour

1. 1.

   a place that is scoured (especially by running water)

   Broadertopographic point

Other forms of scour

plural

scours·

past tense

scoured·

present participle

scouring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scour

What does scour mean?

scour means "examine minutely". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scour?

scour has 2 syllables: sco-ur. The stress falls on "sco". In IPA it is /ˈskaʊɚ/.

What is another word for scour?

Close synonyms include scrub, abrade, flush, purge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scour a common word?

scour is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.