English words for 'Preventing or curing scabies.'
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adj
- Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
- covered with scabs
- (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
- Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
- Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
- Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
- (Ireland, UK, slang) stingy; scrounging.
noun
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
- the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
verb
- (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
- (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
- (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
- form a scab
- take the place of work of someone on strike
noun
adj
- (biology) Having scabers.
- (figurative) Disgusting, repellent.
- (figurative, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
- Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
- (figurative) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
- (figurative) Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
- (figurative) Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
- rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- dealing with salacious or indecent material
prep
- In order to cure, remove or counteract.
- Because of.
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Supporting, in favour of.
- So as to identify or locate.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- (commerce) For the price of.
- (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Befitting of someone’s beliefs, needs, wants, skills, or tastes; best suited to.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- So as to allow (something or someone) to take position.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
- (nonstandard) So (that), in order to
- Used in various other more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- On behalf of.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Over (a period of time).
- Used to introduce a subject of a to-infinitive clause.
- (with names, chiefly US) In honor of; after.
- To be, or as being.
- (usually in the phrase 'for all') Despite, in spite of.
- In anticipation of.
- (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- (UK) Due for or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- (in expressions such as 'for a start') Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence .
conj
noun
- (medicine) Measures applied to the source of an infection to reduce further contamination and spread.
- (computing) A technology that handles access to computer files containing source code so that several users can work on the files without interfering with each other's changes.
- (epidemiology, public health) Measures applied to potentially-infected people that reduce their chances of infecting others.
noun
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
- the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
verb
- (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
- (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
- (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
- form a scab
- take the place of work of someone on strike
noun
noun
- (medicine) Measures applied to the source of an infection to reduce further contamination and spread.
- (computing) A technology that handles access to computer files containing source code so that several users can work on the files without interfering with each other's changes.
- (epidemiology, public health) Measures applied to potentially-infected people that reduce their chances of infecting others.
noun
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
- (derogatory, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting.
- the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
verb
- (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- (transitive, UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
- (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
- (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
- form a scab
- take the place of work of someone on strike
adj
- Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
- covered with scabs
- (printing) Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
- Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
- Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
- Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
- (Ireland, UK, slang) stingy; scrounging.
adj
- (biology) Having scabers.
- (figurative) Disgusting, repellent.
- (figurative, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
- Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
- (figurative) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
- (figurative) Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
- (figurative) Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
- rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- dealing with salacious or indecent material