Scab

/skæb/

Synonyms for "scab" (157 found)

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Closest matches (32)

Noun(4 words)

blackleg strikebreaker backfill coagulate

abscess apostemebed sorebirthmark blackhead blackleg blain bleb blemish blister boil bubo bulla bunion cankercanker sorecarbuncle chancre chancroid check

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chilblain cicatrix cicatrizeclose upcold sorecomedo crack

Verb(1 words)

blackleg

Strong matches (47)

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

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festeringfever blisterfink fistula flaw freckle furuncle furunculus gathering granulate gumboil healheal overhemangioma hemorrhoids hickey incrust incrustation keloid kibe

Noun(6 words)

cross the picket linecrustcrust overcrusts escharform crust

Verb(1 words)

fink

Related words (78)

kink knit lentigo lesion loricate mar milium moleneedle scarnevus papula papule paronychia parulispastry shellpetechia piecrust pile piles pimple

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pit pock pockmark polypport-wine markport-wine stainpustule rat riftright itselfrisingscab overscale scar scarify scratchsebaceous cystset shellsoft chancresore split stalactite stalagmite stigmastrawberry markstrikebreaker sty suppuration swelling track tubercle twist ulcer ulceration verruca vesicle wale warp wart weal welt wen wheal whelk whitehead whitlow wound

Noun(8 words)

lesionnonunion workerrat scabbing scalie scurf villainwork during a strike

Verb(2 words)

rat scabbed

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5 relation types

More general

14 entries

coatingdisease signdo workemployeeemployment practiceheallabor actionlesionplant disease symptomsolid body substancetissue repairwork workerwound healing

More specific

8 entries

apple scabcrusting escharnonunion workerpotato scabreplacement hiringscar formationstrikebreaking

Collocations

10 entries

apple scabblood scabpotato scabreplacement hiringscab during a strikescab formationscab lesionscab overscabing processstrikebreaking

Inflections

3 entries

scabbed scabbing scabs

Derivations

4 entries

scabbed scabbiness scabbing scabby

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.

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

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Tom kept picking at the scab on his hand.

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