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SCRUBBING
scrub, scrubbing, scouring
(noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
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
scrubbing
present participle of scrub
Noun
scrubbing (countable and uncountable, plural scrubbings)
An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed.
The removal of impurities from gas.
Source: Wiktionary
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
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