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Scab
/skæb/
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
📖 Definitions of "Scab"
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).
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.
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