Definitions for scrub

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scrub scrub

Spelling: [skruhb]

IPA: /skrʌb/

Scrub is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in scrub (bcrsu).

Definitions for scrub

noun

1. an act or instance of scrubbing.
2. a canceled or postponed space flight, launching, scheduled part of a space mission, etc.
3. something, as a cosmetic preparation, used for scrubbing.
4. low trees or shrubs collectively.
5. a large area covered with low trees and shrubs, as the Australian bush.
6. a domestic animal of mixed or inferior breeding; mongrel.
7. a small or insignificant person.
8. anything undersized or inferior.
9. Sports. a player not belonging to the varsity or regular team; a player who is not first-string.

adjective

1. small, undersized, or stunted.
2. inferior or insignificant.
3. abounding in or covered with low trees and shrubs:

verb (used with object)

1. to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
2. to subject to friction; rub.
3. to remove (dirt, grime, etc.) from something by hard rubbing while washing.
4. Chemistry. to remove (impurities or undesirable components) from a gas by chemical means, as sulfur dioxide from smokestack gas or carbon dioxide from exhaled air in life-support packs.
5. to cancel or postpone (a space flight or part of a mission):
6. Slang. to do away with; cancel:

verb (used without object)

1. to cleanse something by hard rubbing.
2. to cleanse one's hands and arms as a preparation to performing or assisting in surgery (often followed by up).

Origin of scrub

1300-50; Middle English scrobben (noun) Middle Dutch schrobben

Examples for scrub

Ponds in the scrub could not easily be identified as channels.

I've had to let the fire go down here, an' scrub till I could ha' cried.

Besides, she had tried to scrub his favorite violin with sapolio.

I did not get into a single game, I was only used on the "scrub" in our practice.

The contamination was ultimately traced back to a scrub technician named Kristen Parker.

Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.

And what boldness is this for a scrub of a servant to speak in such a way before her master?

It depicts an exhausted Texas oil field on scrub land, an old railroad bed and a watery ditch converging in the distance.

Havens is optimistic that if PHA beads could be used successfully in cosmetics without losing their ability to scrub.

The newest edition adapts the same principles to the digital age and urges kids to scrub their Facebook pages.