See scour in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To rub hard in order to clean:
scrub. See clean, put onTo remove (an outer layer or adherent matter) by rubbing a surface with considerable pressure:
scrape, scrub. See put on
verb
To make a thorough search of:
comb, forage, ransack, rummage. (Slang) shake down. Idioms: beat the bushes, leave no stone unturned, look (or search) high and low, look (or search) up and down, turn inside out, turn upside down. See investigateTo move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See move
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