scrub
/skɹʌb/ noun C2- An instance of scrubbing.
- A cancellation.
- A worn-out brush.
- One who scrubs.
- That which scrubs.
- An exfoliant for the body.
Plural scrubs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I’ll get some sand and scrub up the spots before I go to school.
I should think a mother would be a better judge than a poor woman who came in to scrub, wouldn’t you?
The shore road was “woodsy and wild and lonesome.” On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely as he tumbled about in the scrub.
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