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Scabs

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

📖 Definitions of "Scabs"

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    The scabies.

  3. 3

    The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

  4. 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. 1

    To become covered by a scab or scabs.

  2. 2

    To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

  3. 3

    To remove part of a surface (from).

  4. 4

    To act as a strikebreaker.

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