to scrub
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1.0
- verb
- /skrʌb/
:
fregar
- And he discovered that it's really hard, you have to scrub a lot to get the tub clean.
- scrub the floor
Well, in between summers I was scrubbing floors and doing housekeeping.
- Well, in between summers I was scrubbing floors and doing housekeeping.
- Like I scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub every single time I'm in the shower.
- Super cute and you just rub it on and it scrubs as it goes.
- I'm going to let that sink in, do its magic and scrub it off in a moment.
- And it's like, oh, and here I am like just scrubbing my hands going away after a piss.
- If you Scrabble your genitals, that means like, wait, if you scrub your what genitals?
Examples
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Once a week, the women scrub their pavements with green soap and water.
Fiction book (1994) -
Now he lay on his back, watching me scrub the table with a dishcloth.
Fiction book (1991) -
We just went to go scrub, scrub down the old apartment.
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I have to jump in the shower now and scrub myself down.
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Put your clothes in that plastic bag, then take a shower and scrub down everything.
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We're going to go round the house and scrub all the black out of the corners of the windows.
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Wash your hair and scrub your nails.
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She can scrub the floor at my house any time she wants.
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I felt disgusted by the place, so I wanted to scrub it clean from top to bottom.
Fiction book (1996) -
She needs to scrub the kitchen floor to remove the stains from the tiles.
Synonyms
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1.0
To remove dirt and stains
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1.0
To clean a floor with a long handle and wet cloth
31
1.0
To remove something from a surface by washing with water or soap
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2.0
To remove something from a surface by moving a cloth over it, like tears or dirt
20
1.0
Remove dirt or marks from a surface by rubbing with a cloth
15
4.8
To clean something by rubbing it hard with a rough cloth or brush
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1.8
To clean a surface using a cloth or towel to remove a spill
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2.1
To clean up liquid by using a soft thing that soaks it up
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3.2
Remove dirt or stains from something using hot steam
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2.5
To remove dirt or stains by rubbing hard with a brush
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3.7
Clean a person or surface by rubbing with a wet cloth
To clean something very well by scrubbing or washing
To rub a surface with a wet sponge to clean it
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
2
4.9
To wash your hands and forearms very carefully before surgery or other medical procedures
Compounds
- Specialized
2
3.9
A hospital worker who helps the surgeon during surgery by keeping things sterile and handing instruments
- US
1
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 as a verb to clean comes from the old sense 'to rub hard', the same idea as rub. So to 'scrub' is to rub a surface hard to remove dirt.