Scab

//skæb//

Synonyms for "scab" (181 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (37)

blackleg abscess aposteme bed sore birthmark blackhead blain bleb blemish blight blister boil bubo bulla bunion canker canker sore carbuncle chancre chancroid

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check chilblain cicatrix cicatrize close up cold sore

Noun(10 words)

blackleg antimodel bad guy baddie bastard blackguard blacklegger bounder cad coistril

Verb(1 words)

blackleg

Strong matches (54)

comedo crack crater craze crust deface defacement defect deform deformation deformity disfiguration disfigure disfigurement distort distortion effloresce encrust eschar fault

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felon fester festering fever blister fink fistula flash flaw freckle furuncle furunculus gathering granulate gumboil heal heal over hemangioma hemorrhoids hickey incrust incrustation keloid kibe kink knit lentigo lesion

Noun(6 words)

evildoer fustilarian harlot heavy knave knobstick

Verb(1 words)

fink

Related words (90)

Noun(24 words)

lidderon makeshift mischief miscreant ne'er-do-well niding nithing polisson rapscallion rascal rat ratfink rogue scalie scamp scapegrace scoundrel scum scumbag strikebreaker

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thug undesirable varlet villain

loricate mar milium mole needle scar nevus papula papule paronychia parulis pastry shell petechia piecrust pile piles pimple pit pock pockmark polyp

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Verb(1 words)

rat

Adjective(1 words)

ununionized

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

12 relation types

More general

5 entries

do work heal solid body substance work worker

Synonyms

1 entries

blackleg

Related terms

2 entries

scabies scabrous

coordinate

2 entries

blight flash

derived

13 entries

antiscab apple scab crown scab powdery scab scab duty scab union scabbery scabbish scabby scabland scabless scablike scabwort

etymologically related_to

2 entries

shab shabby

has context

7 entries

australia founding nz offensive plant disease slang uk

is a

3 entries

dried blood on wound solid body substance worker

manner of

2 entries

heal work

part of

1 entries

skin

related to

30 entries

beg blood bum cadge common scab crusted crusted over disease dried dried blood fungus healing incrustation irregular mange mold

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similar

2 entries

blight flash

Translations

145 translations across 73 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

roof noun (incrustation over a wound)

Albanian

1 entries

dregë noun (incrustation over a wound)

Aleut

1 entries

qadux̂ noun (incrustation over a wound)

Arabic

1 entries

جُلْبَة noun (incrustation over a wound)

Armenian

2 entries

կեղ noun (incrustation over a wound)
կեղանք noun (incrustation over a wound)

Asturian

1 entries

postiella noun (incrustation over a wound)

Bashkir

1 entries

ҡутыр noun (incrustation over a wound)

Basque

1 entries

zolda noun (incrustation over a wound)

Belarusian

2 entries

каро́ста noun (incrustation over a wound)
струп noun (incrustation over a wound)

Bengali

1 entries

মামড়ি noun (incrustation over a wound)

Breton

1 entries

trouskenn noun (incrustation over a wound)

Bulgarian

4 entries

ко́ричка noun (incrustation over a wound)
зараствам verb (to become covered by a scab or scabs)
обелвам се verb (to form into scabs and be shed)
хващам кора verb (to become covered by a scab or scabs)

Catalan

4 entries

clivellat noun (fungus disease of plants)
crosta noun (incrustation over a wound)
crostera noun (incrustation over a wound)
ronya noun (fungus disease of plants)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎤᏣᏍᏓᎸ noun (incrustation over a wound)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

痂 noun (incrustation over a wound)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

qotur noun (incrustation over a wound)

Czech

2 entries

strup noun (incrustation over a wound)
strupovitost noun (group of diseases of potatoes)

Danish

1 entries

sårskorpe noun (incrustation over a wound)

Dutch

2 entries

roofje noun (incrustation over a wound)
wondkorst noun (incrustation over a wound)

Esperanto

1 entries

krusto noun (incrustation over a wound)

Estonian

2 entries

korp noun (incrustation over a wound)
kärn noun (incrustation over a wound)

Faroese

2 entries

skabb noun (incrustation over a wound)
skrubb noun (incrustation over a wound)

Finnish

4 entries

hilse noun (founding irregularity)
hulttio noun (mean, dirty, paltry fellow)
perunarupi noun (common scab)
rupi noun (incrustation over a wound)

French

2 entries

croûte noun (incrustation over a wound)
s'encroûter verb (to become covered by a scab or scabs)

Galician

4 entries

bostela noun (incrustation over a wound)
callada noun (incrustation over a wound)
callón noun (incrustation over a wound)
carapola noun (incrustation over a wound)

Georgian

2 entries

მუნი noun (incrustation over a wound)
ქეცი noun (incrustation over a wound)

German

4 entries

Kartoffelschorf noun (common scab)
Kruste noun (incrustation over a wound)
Schorf noun (incrustation over a wound)
Schorf noun (fungus disease of plants)

Greek

2 entries

καρκάδι noun (incrustation over a wound)
κρούστα noun (incrustation over a wound)

Hebrew

1 entries

גלד noun (incrustation over a wound)

Hindi

1 entries

खुरंड noun (incrustation over a wound)

Hungarian

2 entries

var noun (incrustation over a wound)
csór verb (slang: to beg or bum)

Icelandic

1 entries

hrúður noun (incrustation over a wound)

Ido

1 entries

krusto noun (incrustation over a wound)

Ingrian

2 entries

kärnä noun (incrustation over a wound)
rupi noun (incrustation over a wound)

Irish

4 entries

gearb noun (incrustation over a wound)
gearbach noun (group of diseases of potatoes)
gearbach noun (common scab)
gearbach noun (fungus disease of plants)

Italian

4 entries

crosta noun (incrustation over a wound)
gretto noun (mean, dirty, paltry fellow)
meschino noun (mean, dirty, paltry fellow)
rogna noun (group of diseases of potatoes)

Japanese

1 entries

瘡蓋 noun (incrustation over a wound)

Kazakh

1 entries

қабыршақ noun (incrustation over a wound)

Khmer

1 entries

ក្រមរ noun (incrustation over a wound)

Korean

1 entries

딱지 noun (incrustation over a wound)

Latgalian

1 entries

kreve noun (incrustation over a wound)

Latin

1 entries

crusta noun (incrustation over a wound)

Latvian

1 entries

krevele noun (incrustation over a wound)

Lithuanian

1 entries

šãšas noun (incrustation over a wound)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Roff noun (incrustation over a wound)

Māori

3 entries

paku noun (incrustation over a wound)
pāpaka noun (incrustation over a wound)
wenewene noun (incrustation over a wound)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

qemûşk noun (incrustation over a wound)

Northern Sami

1 entries

ruobbi noun (incrustation over a wound)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

flein noun (incrustation over a wound)

Occitan

1 entries

crosta noun (incrustation over a wound)

Old English

1 entries

sċeabb noun (incrustation over a wound)

Persian

1 entries

کبره noun (incrustation over a wound)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Roof noun (incrustation over a wound)

Polish

1 entries

strup noun (incrustation over a wound)

Portuguese

4 entries

bostela noun (incrustation over a wound)
casca noun (incrustation over a wound)
cascão noun (incrustation over a wound)
casquinha noun (incrustation over a wound)

Punjabi

2 entries

ਅੰਗੂਰ noun (incrustation over a wound)
ਖਰੀਂਡ noun (incrustation over a wound)

Romanian

1 entries

crustă noun (incrustation over a wound)

Russian

4 entries

ко́рочка noun (incrustation over a wound)
коро́ста noun (incrustation over a wound)
мерза́вец noun (mean, dirty, paltry fellow)
парша́ noun (group of diseases of potatoes)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

sgreab noun (incrustation over a wound)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

krȁsta noun (incrustation over a wound)
кра̏ста noun (incrustation over a wound)

Slovak

1 entries

chrasta noun (incrustation over a wound)

Spanish

4 entries

carnero noun (incrustation over a wound)
costra noun (incrustation over a wound)
encostradura noun (incrustation over a wound)
grano noun (incrustation over a wound)

Swedish

3 entries

ruva noun (incrustation over a wound)
skorpa noun (incrustation over a wound)
sårskorpa noun (incrustation over a wound)

Tagalog

1 entries

langib noun (incrustation over a wound)

Telugu

1 entries

పక్కు noun (incrustation over a wound)

Thai

1 entries

ฝ้า noun (incrustation over a wound)

Tibetan

1 entries

རྨ་ཁོག noun (incrustation over a wound)

Turkish

2 entries

kabuk noun (incrustation over a wound)
kabuk bağlamak verb (to become covered by a scab or scabs)

Ukrainian

2 entries

коро́ста noun (incrustation over a wound)
струп noun (incrustation over a wound)

Urdu

1 entries

کھرنڈ noun (incrustation over a wound)

Venetan

1 entries

broxa noun (incrustation over a wound)

Vietnamese

1 entries

vảy noun (incrustation over a wound)

Welsh

2 entries

crach noun (incrustation over a wound)
cramen noun (incrustation over a wound)

Sample sentences

23 total sentences available.

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Tom's wound was still weeping and had yet to scab over.

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His belly button hole is going to scab up.

Source: tatoeba (8500066)

Unfortunately I have the bad habit of picking the scab off my wounds.

Source: tatoeba (8877031)

Tom kept picking at the scab on his hand.

Source: tatoeba (10237127)

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