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Scab

Scab meaning

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. | The scabies. | The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.

Example sentences (20)

Once a scab, always a scab.

Gala apples are fairly susceptible to apple scab, but Honeycrisp is resistant to apple scab,” said Cox.

But eight hours later his hand doubled in size and formed a green scab.

It’s not as raw as it used to be, there’s kind of a scab from there, but it still hurts every day.

Photo: Mountain SceneThe owner of an Arrowtown taxi company that has bought a company comprising former ‘scab cab’ cabbies promises they’ll behave.

The peculiar lump started off flat but grew and as she kept knocking it, would scab over.

This comes after Ryan Reynolds tweeted, “I look forward to screaming ‘scab’ at my 8 year old all night.

Mrs. Delia Noles and children, of Jasper, spent a few days last week with Uncle Scab Noles and other relatives who live here.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a stop in Windsor Thursday to meet with local unionized workers, leaders, and seniors, and tout the Liberal’s federal anti-scab legislation, among other hot-button local issues.

These are the ‘scab-pickers,’ constantly focusing on problems rather than solutions.

A giant, inflatable rat outside the union hall decried corporate greed as workers fumed over the hiring of “scab” workers and political leaders got involved.

A young beautician who was forced to hide her sore, scab-like skin on holiday has discovered that food intolerances were the cause of her numerous health problems.

By that season, Diane’s lack of connection to being Vietnamese had hardened into a scab ready for picking.

Sometimes it catches us off guard, revealing a scar or scab, a truth-telling character line or woeful flaw we didn’t know we had.

The Communication Center in Houston, Texas, noted the horse crew’s beacon had begun moving towards Scab Creek and had turned their emergency “911” message to “OK” mode.

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

A former cheerleader has revealed how an odd-looking scab on her forehead turned out to be life-threatening.

Yes, he, David Granger, whose only experience with the sugar industry was when he provided scab labour to break GAWU’s strike for recognition in 1976, had come to “fix” sugar!

A fresh wound hurts, until a scab forms to protect it.

It eventually forms a scab that falls off.