scoured

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noun

Wool that has undergone scouring to remove grease.

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erodedworn
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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of scour
nounscoured (countable and uncountable, plural scoureds)

plural scoureds

  1. countableuncountableWool that has undergone scouring to remove grease.

    Natal grease wool sustained its price, and varied very little; Natal scoureds, especially the defective kinds, obtained the same prices as all other kinds of scoureds.

    1883, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, ..., page 324

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveworn away as by water or ice or wind

Similar
erodedworn
Also see
eroded

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

coursedcedrous
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APA

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MLA

“scoured.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scoured. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scoured,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scoured.

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