SCRUBBED

scrubbed

(adjective) made clean by scrubbing; “fresh-scrubbed floors”; “boys with scrubbed necks and faces”

SCRUB

scrub, scrub up

(verb) wash thoroughly; “surgeons must scrub prior to an operation”

scrub, scour

(verb) clean with hard rubbing; “She scrubbed his back”

cancel, call off, scratch, scrub

(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; “Call off the engagement”; “cancel the dinner party”; “we had to scrub our vacation plans”; “scratch that meeting--the chair is ill”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

scrubbed

simple past tense and past participle of scrub

Adjective

scrubbed (comparative more scrubbed, superlative most scrubbed)

(surgery, not comparable) With hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves.

Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

Source: Wiktionary

Scrub"bed, a.

Definition: Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

SCRUB

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

Definition: 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, v. i.

Definition: 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, 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. Goldsmith.

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)

Definition: 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 (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidæ, 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. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii.

– Scrub robin (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.

Scrub, a.

Definition: Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. How solitary, how scrub, does this town lokk! Walpole. No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift. Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.

– Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition