scabs

Meaning of scabs

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 scabs

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

scabs

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • scabs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

scabs synonyms

Meaning :

blackleg, knobstick

Words that rhyme with scabs

cabs, minicabs, pedicabs, taxicabs, vocabs

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