Translation of scour in Spanish

Food was excellent, but unfortunately my wife could not eat it as it came with too much curry and she is sensitive to it. We were very tired and returned to the hotel around eleven o'clock.
It must have taken them years and ten's of thousands of workers to accomplish the tasks of constructing such spectacular compounds. We took many pictures and walked back to the taxi.
I think there are many similar words in English and in German like park, house, bank and many more. Many people in Germany know these words, although they do not speak English properly.