Definition of "scoured" [scoured]

• Simple past tense and past participle of scour. (verb)

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• "On Friday, we again scoured the critical responses to find out what everyone's saying."
• "Unfortunately, he didn't care for the way we phrased the question, so he refuses to have any further conflict with the site and all mentions of his name scoured from it."
• "Ms. Leeds is conducting a search for a chief financial officer of a large publicly traded managed-care company and says she has "scoured" the universe of available candidates from within the industry, with little luck."