0 past simple and past participle of scour
1 to remove dirt from something by rubbing it hard with something rough:
2 to search a place or thing very carefully in order to try to find something:
3 (of farm animals, especially cows and pigs) to have diarrhoea:
He scoured the country for pupils who were already literate and knew the rudiments of arithmetic.
Unfortunately, the large fuselage number on one side had been scoured away by wind.
The sandstones consist of stacked sheets (0.5-1.5 m thick) separated by flat to slightly scoured bounding surfaces.
As one would expect, he has scoured the newspapers of the era for significant reviews and interviews.
The most controversial section is that dealing with postulated tsunami-generated coastal forms, especially scoured bedrock surfaces.
It has instead been scoured away by a handful of riveting future person cases collectively known as the 'non-identity problem'.
This facies shows an erosional/scoured upper contact (sections 1, 2).
The ignimbrite has a scoured base overlain by inverse-graded lapilli-tuff with diffuse bedding that passes up into massive lapillituff.
