scrub
- noun
- /skrʌb/
- 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
The act of removing dirt and dust from a place or object
The act of cleaning something with water and soap
An act of cleaning something with water, often using soap
A repeated movement across a surface, like with a cloth, to make it clean or shiny
Cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap, and water to remove dirt
The action of moving one thing over another with pressure to make heat, clean, or ease pain
Making something clean by removing dirt
Cleaning or arranging something with a brush
Cleaning a surface by rubbing it hard with a brush and soap
Compounds
- Specialized
A hospital worker who helps the surgeon during surgery by keeping things sterile and handing instruments
- US
A small, bushy pine tree with twisted branches and short needles in pairs that grows in the eastern United States
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
- 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
- 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.