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adjective

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verb

past tense of scour
as in searched
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something the police scoured the city for the Typhoid Mary of this latest epidemic

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Recent Examples of scoured
Adjective
Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire. — Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
Several friends took the far side of the river; others scoured the median that the flood had created. — Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026 Michael Foster scoured the Iinternet. — Anna Spoerre, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026 Police quickly scoured nearby surveillance footage to get to the bottom of what happened — one camera did reveal what occurred. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 20 June 2026 European allies and Canada scoured their inventories to see what could be offered should one of them come under attack. — ABC News, 3 July 2026 The team scoured documents buried in Japanese and US military archives before conducting sonar surveys and technical dives. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 Out of more than 300 patients who had their neck arteries scoured, Italian researchers reported, those with higher levels of plastics-laden plaque were more likely to suffer strokes, heart attacks or sudden death during the next three years. — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026 In 2009, after having scoured the neighborhood for years, Hermès paid 73 million pounds, or $117 million, for the New Bond Street space, according to real estate sources. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 16 June 2026 Next chance of showers returns by Sunday evening Several weak disturbances will traverse the Upper Ohio Valley, leading to partly cloudy skies, but with deep moisture scoured out, rain chances will be absent for the most part Friday through Sunday afternoon. — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scoured
  1. sanded
  2. searched
  3. found
  4. combed
Adjective
  • Fill the crack in the door with the epoxy wood filler, spreading a small bit of the paste over the sanded area to help close and bond the edges of the crack together.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026
Definition of sanded
Verb
  • Swimming was suspended while officials searched for sharks and other dangerous marine life.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • Her doctors searched for ways to manage her stress by exposing her to various activities, including video games, serene Icelandic landscapes and an aerial silks performance.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Definition of searched
Verb
  • America, whose Constitution was formulated by white men, struggled to live up to its founding ideals in the days of slavery and displacement of Native Americans.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Dioz was co-founded by Johnny, 44, and his brother Tony in 2006.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Definition of found
Verb
  • New York City investigators combed through an empty Queens school building Tuesday after human remains were found inside its chimney, police said.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • He has been adored, sanitized, revived, pathologized, sentimentalized, and combed for polite company.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
Definition of combed

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