scrub
/skɹʌb/ sustantivo B2En español: breña, maleza
- A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant. · oak scrub
- Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
- One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
- One who labors hard and lives meanly.
- One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. · Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!
- One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
Plural scrubs
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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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