Contact and joining
Synonyms for scour
The synonym for scour recorded in this bank is abrade, in the sense "rub hard or scrub". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for scour
- abradeverb, in the sense "rub hard or scrub"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for scour.
rub hard or scrub
Scour the counter tops.
The true synonym
abrade
Same sentence, swapped: Abrade the counter tops.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- purge
- puree
- smudge
Where scour turns up in the game
scour is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where scour is the trap
- scrubverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is scratch, in the sense "postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled", with scour sitting one tile away.
Play scour
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scour reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from contact and joining at Summit outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scour carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.