scrubverb
uk/skrʌb/us/skrʌb/-bb-scrub verb (CLEAN)
[ I or T ] to rub something hard in order to clean it, especially using a stiff brush, soap, and water:
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Cleaning generally
- brush sb/sth off
- cleaner
- cleaning
- cleanse
- cleansing
- decontaminate
- groom
- purification
- purify
- rinse
- rinse sth out
- scour
- sluice
- sluice sth down/out
- sponge
- sweep
- wash (sth) out
- wipe
- wipe sth down
- wipe sth up
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scrub verb (STOP)
[ T ] US also scratch informal to decide not to do something you had planned to do:
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Cancelling and interrupting
- adjourn
- adjourn to somewhere
- arrest
- break
- call
- call sth off
- cancel
- cancellation
- cut
- disturb
- halt
- in midstream idiom
- kick
- kick sth into touch idiom
- midstream
- mothball
- nullify
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
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Phrasal verb(s)
scrubnoun
uk/skrʌb/us/skrʌb/scrub noun (PLANTS)
[ U ] (an area of land covered with) short trees and bushes, growing on dry ground of low quality
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Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses
- Bushman
- common
- desert
- dust bowl
- marginal land
- meadow
- moor
- moorland
- pampas
- pasture
- plain
- steppe
- sward
- tall-grass prairie
- the outback
- tundra
- undeveloped
- waste
- wasteland
- wild
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scrub noun (CLEAN)
[ S ] UK the act of rubbing something hard in order to clean it, especially using a stiff brush, soap, and water:
[ C ] a substance that you use to clean your skin and make it softer, especially one that is slightly rough and will remove old skin:
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Cleaning generally
- brush sb/sth off
- cleaner
- cleaning
- cleanse
- cleansing
- decontaminate
- groom
- purification
- purify
- rinse
- rinse sth out
- scour
- sluice
- sluice sth down/out
- sponge
- sweep
- wash (sth) out
- wipe
- wipe sth down
- wipe sth up
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scrub noun (CLOTHES)
[ plural ] mainly US loose clothes worn by doctors and nurses in a hospital:
covered with short trees and bushes: