scrub

[Scrub]

When you scrub something, you wash it forcefully. You might scrub your dirty bathtub with a brush and some bleach, for example.

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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.

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

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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.

Scrub

Scrub , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrubbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrubbing.] [OE. scrobben, probably of Dutch or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. sckrubbe, Sw. skrubba, D. schrobben, LG. schrubben.] 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.

Scrub

Scrub, 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.

Scrub

Scrub, n. 1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. "A sorry scrub." Bunyan.

We should go there in as proper a manner possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.

2. Something small and mean. 3. A worn-out brush. Ainsworth. 4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc. 5. (Stock Breeding) One of the commen live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. [U.S.] Scrub bird (Zo'94l.), an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithid'91, as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird. -- Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q. Catesb'91i); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii. -- Scrub robin (Zo'94l.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.

Scrub

Scrub, a. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

How solitary, how scrub, does this town lokk!

No little scrub joint shall come on my board.

Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

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.

To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

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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 Examples

I 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.