scrub
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- noun
- /skrʌb/
:
fregado
- It's got the moisturizer, the face scrub and the face wash as well.
Examples
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You know, the place really looked like it needed a scrub.
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So one of the boxes came with lip scrub and a green tinted primer.
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This is a sort of daily scrub that you can use daily.
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So it's like a scrub, like a soap scrub to your skin.
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So this is a shower scrub or a bath scrub and it just smells so good.
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This is like a clear scrub with little pink beads in it.
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I had the body wash, the lotion, the scrub, the spray.
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On the last day, she exerted the remains of her formidable energy on a total scrub-down of the bathroom.
Fiction book (2000) -
He used a scrub to clean the greasy stains from the kitchen counter.
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After a long day of gardening, she took a scrub to remove the dirt from her hands.
Synonyms
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The act of removing dirt and dust from a place or object
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An act of cleaning something with water, often using soap
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A repeated movement across a surface, like with a cloth, to make it clean or shiny
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The act of cleaning something with water and soap
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Cleaning or arranging something with a brush
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Cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap, and water to remove dirt
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Making something clean by removing dirt
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Cleaning a surface by rubbing it hard with a brush and soap
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The action of moving one thing over another with pressure to make heat, clean, or ease pain
Compounds
- Specialized
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A hospital worker who helps the surgeon during surgery by keeping things sterile and handing instruments
- US
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8.2
A small, bushy pine tree with twisted branches and short needles in pairs that grows in the eastern United States
- Australian
A large ground bird that builds a warm mound of rotting plants to hatch its eggs
- Australian
A tree or tall shrub that has shiny leaves, white fragrant flowers, and hard red wood in Australia
A small tough palm that grows in clumps with spiny leaves in the southern United States
- Specialized
A disease people get when tiny animals called mites bite them that gives fever and a rash
- Specialized
A small evergreen shrub or tree that grows in sandy coastal areas and forms dense thickets
How Clean
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scrub meaning a hard cleaning comes from an old verb that meant 'to rub hard', very like the simple word rub. So a 'scrub' is a strong clean that rubs dirt away.