Synonyms for scab
skæbscab

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1. scabnoun

   A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.

   Synonyms:
   blackleg, knobstick

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, ratnoun

   someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike

   Synonyms:
   betrayer, git, puke, rotter, dirty dog, strikebreaker, stinker, informer, squealer, skunk, scum bag, bum, lowlife, rat, so-and-so, stinkpot, blackleg, crumb, blabber

2. scabverb

   the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion

   Synonyms:
   rat, blackleg, strikebreaker

3. scabverb

   form a scab

   "the wounds will eventually scab"

   Synonyms:
   blackleg, fink, rat

4. fink, scab, rat, blacklegverb

   take the place of work of someone on strike

   Synonyms:
   give away, snitch, tell on, confess, fink, rat, betray, denounce, shit, shop, blackleg, squeal, grass, stag

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1. • Heal

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. scabnoun

   Synonyms:
   eschar, incrustation, mange

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "scab":

   gale, ringworm, crust, yellow, traitor, gall

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How to use scab in a sentence?

1. Jack London:

   The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

2. Tom Colbert:

   This has been a scab on the side of the FBI for years.

3. Haywood Johnson:

   One of the things that bothered me is that I was the one that buried most of those people, most of the deceased, and it was like pulling the scab off of a wound.

4. Doug Heye:

   It picks at what's been a very, very bad scab for Republicans for a long time, i think the party if they nominate him will be committing an abortion on itself.