SCOURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scoured mean? 

• SCOURED (adjective)
  The adjective SCOURED has 1 sense:

1. worn away as by water or ice or wind

  Familiarity information: SCOURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worn away as by water or ice or wind

Synonyms:

eroded; scoured

Similar:

worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)

 Context examples 

The moor is being scoured for these gypsies.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All about me was spotless and bright—scoured floor, polished grate, and well-rubbed chairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Dry Valleys, by contrast, are ice-free, mountainous regions, interspersed with glaciers, where little snow accumulates because they are scoured by winds.

(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)

In small parties we scoured the country as far as East Grinstead and Bletchingley, and the sun had been long over the horizon before we found ourselves back at Crawley once more with heavy hearts and tired feet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In addition to being almost completely scoured of ice and snow by high winds, the Dry Valleys are the site of ice-covered lakes, which experience seasonal, temperature-related advances and retreats in their amount of ice cover during the Southern Hemisphere's summer months, sometimes resulting in a temporary moat around the icy surface of the lakes.

(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)

She had left Thornfield Hall in the night; every research after her course had been vain: the country had been scoured far and wide; no vestige of information could be gathered respecting her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The hall, too, was scoured; and the great carved clock, as well as the steps and banisters of the staircase, were polished to the brightness of glass; in the dining-room, the sideboard flashed resplendent with plate; in the drawing-room and boudoir, vases of exotics bloomed on all sides.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)