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Scamming
- verb - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
Scammony
- noun - resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia
- tropical American morning glory
- twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin
Scamping
- verb - perform hastily and carelessly
Scandent
- adjective - used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"
Scanning
- verb - conform to a metrical pattern
- examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
- examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
- make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
- move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
- obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
- read metrically; "scan verses"
- the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
- the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
Scanting
- verb - limit in quality or quantity
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
Scarfing
- verb - masturbate while strangling oneself
- unite by a scarf joint
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
Scarring
- verb - mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
Scathing
- adjective - marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
Scatting
- verb - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"