scabs

The word “scabs” has 1 syllable: scabs

It's pronounced as /skæbz/

What is synonym and antonym for scabs?

In the thesaurus, “scabs” has 103 synonyms and 8 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for scabs along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for scabs

airheads
barbarians
bastards
beasts
birdbrains
bleeders
blighters
blockheads
boobies
boors
bounders
brats
brutes
buggers
buzzards
cads
cavemen
chuffs
churls
clowns
creeps
cretins
cruds
crumbs
curs
dinks
dirtbags
dogs
dolts
doofuses
dopes
dorks
dufuses
dweebs
finks
fools
goons
half-wits
heels
hounds
idiots
imbeciles
insolents
jackasses
jerks
jokers
loudmouths
louses
louts
lowlifes
lowlives
miscreants
morons
neanderthals
nerds
nincompoops
ninnies
nits
nitwits
nuisances
nuts
pests
pills
rascals
rat finks
rats
reptiles
rogues
rotters
roughnecks
savages
scamps
schmoes
schmucks
scoundrels
scumbags
scums
scuzzballs
skunk
skunks
sleazebags
sleazeballs
sleazes
slimeballs
slimes
slobs
snakes
snips
snobs
snoots
snots
so-and-sos
sods
stinkards
stinkers
swine
toads
turkeys
varmints
vermin
villains
vulgarians
wretches

Antonyms for scabs

angels
gentlemen
heroes
heroines
idols
ladies
role models
saints

Meanings of scabs

noun
1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
2. The scabies.
3. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
4. 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).
5. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
6. Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
7. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
8. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
9. A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
verb
1. To become covered by a scab or scabs.
2. To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
3. To remove part of a surface (from).
4. To act as a strikebreaker.
5. To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

Example Sentences

The doctor warned him not to pick at the scabs on his hand.
She noticed the scabs had started to heal after a few days.
His knee was covered in scabs from the fall he had last week.
The scabs on his elbows were a reminder of the rough game they played.
After the injury, the scabs formed quickly, protecting the wound.

On this page you'll find 111 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to scabs, such as: airheads, angels, barbarians, bastards, beasts, birdbrains, bleeders.

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