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scab

 
Noun scab has 2 senses
  1. scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat - someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
    --1 is a kind of worker
    Derived form: verb scab2
  2. scab - the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
    --2 is a kind of
    solid body substance
    --2 is a part of skin, tegument, cutis
    --2 has particulars: eschar
    Derived form: verb scab1
Verb scab has 2 senses
  1. scab - form a scab; "the wounds will eventually scab"
    --1 is one way to
    heal
    Derived form: noun scab2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody's (body part) ----s
  2. scab, rat, blackleg - take the place of work of someone on strike
    --2 is one way to work, do work
    Derived form: noun scab1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
sbjective sbrab sbsequently sbsolescence sbstinate sbw sc sc s scab scab formed on a burn scabbard scabbed scabby scabicide scabies scabiosa scabiosa arvensis

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