Definitions for scabbed

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scabbed scab·bed

Spelling: [skab-id, skabd]

IPA: /ˈskæb ɪd, skæbd/

Scabbed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in scabbed (abbcdes).

Definitions for scabbed

noun

1. the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
2. Veterinary Pathology. a mangy disease in animals, especially sheep; scabies. Compare itch (def 10).
3. Plant Pathology. a disease of plants characterized by crustlike lesions on the affected parts and caused by a fungus or bacterium. one of these crustlike lesions.
4. a worker who refuses to join a labor union or to participate in a union strike, who takes a striking worker's place on the job, or the like.
5. Slang. a rascal or scoundrel.
6. Metallurgy. a projection or roughness on an ingot or casting from a defective mold. a surface defect on an iron or steel piece resulting from the rolling in of scale.
7. Carpentry. a short, flat piece of wood used for various purposes, as binding two timbers butted together or strengthening a timber at a weak spot.

adjective

1. covered with or affected by scabs.
2. Obsolete. mean or petty.

verb (used without object)

1. to become covered with a scab.
2. to act or work as a scab.

Origin of scabbed

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at scab, -ed³

Examples for scabbed

He was aware, also, of the dirt, which scabbed and crusted everything.

Working on the roof in the sun, his lips got all scabbed and broken.

The inside has rather the look of meat, for it is reddish and all streaked and scabbed with this pox and with discoloured chalk.

On arrival there the external wounds were scabbed over, and a large tumour existed beneath the entrance wound.

From lodge to lodge they passed, and finally they came upon an old woman, pitted and scabbed, lying alone and dying.

You know as well as I do that the Big Six scabbed on the pressmen.

I' faith, I see beards are infectious as well as scabbed lips.

It just dribbled over the side of his mouth that was scabbed with purple crust.

Anbury causes a scabbed and broken skin, and tubercular growths on the roots and at the base of the bulb.

Fumitory helps such as are itchy and scabbed, helps Rickets, madness, and quartain agues.