scrub

Speech parts

1. scrub - Noun

2. scrub - Adjective

3. scrub - Verb

4. scrub - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

Something small and mean.

A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bush chaparral cancel scratch scour scouring scrubbing call off scrub up shaw heath wash polish fern croton
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Antonyms

sully mar fleck mark patriarch titanic
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Hypernyms

wash flora botany vegetation cleaning cleansing

Hyponyms

holystone mopping swabbing

Phrases with the word

scrub off scrub room facial scrub grape seed scrub scrub mountain pine California scrub jay

Derivatives

scrubbed scrubbing

Anagrams

curbs

Examples

Call off the engagement Source: Internet

cancel the dinner party Source: Internet

we had to scrub our vacation plans Source: Internet

scratch that meeting--the chair is ill Source: Internet

She scrubbed his back Source: Internet

surgeons must scrub prior to an operation Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

scrowdge scroyle SCRP scrub baseball scrub beefwood scrub bird