scab

Meaning of scab

noun
  1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  2. The scabies.
  3. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
  4. Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
  5. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
  6. Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  7. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  8. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  9. A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
verb
  1. To become covered by a scab or scabs.
  2. To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
  3. To remove part of a surface (from).
  4. To act as a strikebreaker.
  5. To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
    I scabbed some money off a friend.

Information about scab

  • The plural form of scab is: scabs.
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Hyphenation of scab

scab

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • scab is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

scab synonyms

Meaning strikebreaker:

strikebreaker, blackleg, rat

Meaning fink:

fink, rat, blackleg

Meaning :

knobstick

Translation of scab

Anagrams of scab

abcs, bacs, BASc, cabs

Words that rhyme with scab

bescab

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