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: --
The manager of the local employment exchange scoured the country for a valve fitter.
Many of us have scoured all sources to find such a case, but without success.
As an export company, we scoured the world for work and had teams working with local people all over the world.
If you scoured the whole county you would not have got a better zoologist and geologist than those two men.
Imports have been encouraged and the world has been scoured for goods.
The world is increasingly being scoured for large deposits of good quality ore which are near the seaboard.
Live individuals were also occasionally scoured and entrained.
The ignimbrite has a scoured base overlain by inverse-graded lapilli-tuff with diffuse bedding that passes up into massive lapillituff.
