Scan and Scour

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Scan verb - To look over closely (as for judging quality or condition).

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Scour is a synonym for scan in study topic. In some cases you can use "Scour" instead a verb "Scan", when it comes to topics like survey, look over.

Nearby Words: scanned, scanning, scanner

Scour verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.

Usage example: the police scoured the city for the Typhoid Mary of this latest epidemic

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Scan is a synonym for scour. Sometimes you can use "Scan" instead a verb "Scour".

Nearby Words: scoured, scouring, scourer

state	scan state	scour state
area	scan area	scour area
place	scan place	scour place
level	scan level	scour level
Other words: countryside, card, planet, planets.

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