A scourer in the form of a pad.

Alternative form of scoresheet

plural of scorched-earth policy

Alternative spelling of scorched-earth policy

Characteristic of a desire to prevail at any cost.

plural of scorched earth policy

(military) A strategy that involves destroying buildings, crops, and other resources that could be useful to opponents. / (figuratively) An intentional course of action that is drastic or ruinous.

(military) Land that has been abandoned, in the face of an advancing enemy, after the destruction of all resources on it.

Alternative spelling of scorched-earth

Damage caused at the outside base of a dam wall due to overflowing flood waters damaging the foundations.