scabs

noun

Meaning

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
The scabies.
The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
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).
Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
To become covered by a scab or scabs.
To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
To remove part of a surface (from).
To act as a strikebreaker.
To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

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