Synonyms of the word

scab

• n. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
• n. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
• n. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
• n. Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused…
• n. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
• n. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants,…
• n. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking…
• n. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
• n. (offensive, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
• v. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
• v. (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
• v. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

blackleg

• n. (uncountable) Fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacteria Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic…
• n. (countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers. A scab.
• n. (countable) A person who cheats in a game, a cheater.
• n. (colloquial) A notorious gambler.
• adj. Relating to a scab worker.

fink

• n. (chiefly US, slang) A contemptible person; an informer; a strikebreaker.
• v. (chiefly US, slang) To betray a trust; to inform on.

heal

• v. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To hide; conceal; keep secret.
• v. (transitive) To cover, as for protection.
• v. (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
• n. (role-playing games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) health.

rat

• n. (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
• n. (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles…
• n. (informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
• n. (informal) An informant or snitch.
• n. (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
• n. Scab.
• n. (north-west London, slang) Vagina.
• n. A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
• v. (usually with “on” or “out”) To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn…
• v. (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.
• n. (regional) A scratch or a score.
• n. (nautical, regional) A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn…
• v. (regional) To scratch or score.
• v. (regional, rare, obsolete) To tear, rip, rend.

strikebreaker

• n. A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

worker

• n. A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.
• n. A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite or wasp.
• n. (computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.