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scab noun

  /skæb/
  • An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  • (plant disease) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
 rupi
  • (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
 hilse, rupi
  • A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
 hulttio
  • Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
 perunarupi

scab verb

  /skæb/
  • (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
 kesiä, kuoriutua
  • (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
 kuoria
  • (transitive, UK, Australia, NZ, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
 pummata
  • (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
 rikkuroida
  • (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
 rupeutua
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