English Dictionary

scab

/skæb/

verb

(intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs. / (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. / (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).

He scabbed over the wound to protect it from infection.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.

Thoſe Puſtules aroſe, maturated, and ſcabbed off, intirely like the true Pox.

意味（3）

(transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).

The beds shall be scabbed off to give a solid bearing, no pinning shall be admitted between the backing and the face stones and there shall be a good square joint not exceeding one inch in width, and the face stone shall be scabbed off to allow this.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.

Don't scab for the bosses / Don't listen to their lies / Us poor folks haven't got a chance / Unless we organize.

意味（5）

(transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

I scabbed some money off a friend.