scab
scab is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
- noun. The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
- noun. The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
- noun. A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
- noun. A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- noun. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- noun. A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
- intransitive verb. To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
- noun. the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- noun. someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- verb. form a scab
"the wounds will eventually scab"
- verb. take the place of work of someone on strike
Synonyms
blackleg, rat, strikebreaker, fink
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