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Scab Common

Scab has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

2

the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

3

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.

Verb
1

form a scab

"the wounds will eventually scab"

2

take the place of work of someone on strike

3

To become covered by a scab or scabs.

Broader Terms (hypernyms)
worker solid body substance heal work
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
eschar
Rhyming Words
cab vocab boxcab sascab pedicab autocab taxicab minicab crew cab supercab king cab bike cab gypsy cab black cab form scab yellow cab hansom cab crown scab hackney cab sleeper cab
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