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Rarescab
The correct spelling is scab.
How to pronounce scab
/skæb/
nounIPA: /skæb/
Say it like: Sca-b
The correct spelling is scab. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. For example: "I scabbed some money off a friend."
Usage Examples
“I scabbed some money off a friend.”
Meanings
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.
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.
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