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Scrub   /skrəb/   Listen
Scrub

noun
1.
Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes.  Synonyms: bush, chaparral.
2.
The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water.  Synonyms: scouring, scrubbing.
verb
(past & past part. scrubbed; pres. part. scrubbing)
1.
Clean with hard rubbing.  Synonym: scour.
2.
Wash thoroughly.  Synonym: scrub up.
3.
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.  Synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch.  "Cancel the dinner party" , "We had to scrub our vacation plans" , "Scratch that meeting--the chair is ill"
adjective
1.
(of domestic animals) not selectively bred.



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"Scrub" Quotes from Famous Books



... t' goodness! Ah wish you-all'd eat that brekfus an' vamoose outen my way. Ah hes t' scrub this hull floor ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... But it ain't likely but what they'll adopt you; and if they do they'll take you down to the river, and wash you and scrub you, so's to get all the white man off, and then pull out your hair, a hair at a time, till there's nothing but the scalp-lock left, so that your enemies can scalp you handy; and then you're just as good an Indian as anybody, and nobody can pick on you, or anything. The ...
— The Flight of Pony Baker - A Boy's Town Story • W. D. Howells
... Cousin Harry, take first ride on St. Patrick (the name of the ass)—here's a leg up. The two Dicks can have Scrub and Rasper. Jack and Billy, boys, catch a hold of the bridles, or devil a ha'p'worth of ride and tie there'll be in at all, if them Dicks get the start—Shanks' mare will take you to Kells. Don't be ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 28, 1841 • Various
... or sixty rooms, bring towels and candles, and fetch several tons of water up several flights of stairs, a hundred pounds at a time, in prodigious metal pitchers. She does not have to work more than eighteen or twenty hours a day, and she can always get down on her knees and scrub the floors of halls and closets when she is ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... fears—but Jim would soon know. And with throttle stretched to the limit he went roaring over the scrub ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various


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