Meaning & use
Scabbing
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Forming a scab over a healing wound.
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The cut on his knee was already scabbing over by the next day.
Doctors say picking at a scabbing wound only slows healing.
A note on using this word
A separate, strongly pejorative labor sense describes a worker who crosses a picket line to work during a strike.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Working during a strike in place of striking employees, especially seen as betraying fellow workers.
Union members accused several workers of scabbing during the walkout.
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