English to English
scab
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noun (n)
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike(noun.person)source: wordnet30
- the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion(noun.body)source: wordnet30
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.(noun)source: webster1913
- Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- form a scab(verb.body)Example:
The wounds will eventually scab.
source: wordnet30 - To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.(verb)source: webster1913
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