Synonyms for scouring
scour·ing

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1. scouringnoun

   moving over territory to search for something

   "scouring the entire area revealed nothing"

   Synonyms:
   scrubbing, scrub

2. scrub, scrubbing, scouringnoun

   the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

   Synonyms:
   bush, chaparral, scrub, scrubbing

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1. • Cleaning
   • Search

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1. searching

   Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "scouring":

   scour, washouts, degreasing, stripping

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How to use scouring in a sentence?

1. Don Felder:

   If I had a pull on 'One of These Nights,' on the first high note on 'One of These Nights,' that was just a tiny hair flat or something, I could just feel Henley's eyes scouring into the back of my head. No mistakes were allowed, and it really kept the quality at a high level.

2. Emma Thompson:

   A couple of years ago I was just washing the dishes and I seen the sponges with the scouring pads, and I just thought it’d be quite interesting to try one of them, ever since that I’ve been addicted to eating them. I just have to soak them in (dishwashing liquid) and then chew on them. I always have to make sure I have sponges in the house.

3. Ted Cruz:

   That makes no sense whatsoever, the FBI should have secured that location and should be scouring it for evidence.

4. Jason Marsteiner:

   (Authorities) probably have some of their best people in the nation out there looking for him and they haven't found no sign of him, the 25,000 acres, it sounds big, but when you've got that many people scouring the area it's really not.

5. Jennifer Atenza:

   Oceanside detectives were scouring areas like that knowing that’s kind of what she is known to frequent.