The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SCAB which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2024.
Wound covering crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SCAB | 100 % | 4 |
Why may SCAB be the right solution?
The answer "SCAB" fits the clue "Wound covering" because a scab forms over a wound as part of the healing process. It is a dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or a scrape.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Wound covering
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- scab
- dressing
- undress
- patch
- dress
- medical dressing
- undressed
- undressing
- bandage
- bandaged
- bandaging
- draw
Crossword Answer definitions
SCAB noun- An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
- The scabies.
- The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
- 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).
- Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
- Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
- (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
- A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
- A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
- To become covered by a scab or scabs.
- To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
- To remove part of a surface (from).
- To act as a strikebreaker.
- To beg (for), to cadge or bum.
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