When you scrub something, you wash it forcefully. You might scrub your dirty bathtub with a brush and some bleach, for example.
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening;
Noun
the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
Noun
dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
Verb
wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
Verb
clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back"
Adjective S.
(of domestic animals) not selectively bred
v. t.
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a
wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of
cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
v. i.
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to
scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a
living.
n.
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
n.
Something small and mean.
n.
A worn-out brush.
n.
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the
prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
n.
One of the common live stock of a region of no particular
breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
a.
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
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We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.2.
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How solitary, how scrub, does this town lokk!
No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening;
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious;
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
Usage Examples
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
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Other Usage ExamplesI was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
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