SCRUB
\skɹˈʌb], \skɹˈʌb], \s_k_ɹ_ˈʌ_b]\
Definitions of SCRUB
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(of domestic animals) not selectively bred
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wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. See Brush, above.
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A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
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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.
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To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
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Something small and mean.
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A worn-out brush.
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A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
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One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
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Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
By Oddity Software
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Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. See Brush, above.
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A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
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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.
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To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
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Something small and mean.
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A worn-out brush.
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A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
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One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
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Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
By Noah Webster.
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To wash by hard rubbing, as clothes; rub with a wet cloth or a wet brush, as a floor.
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One who toils hard for a meager living; a drudge; a thicket; as, an oak scrub.
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Mean or small; in athletics, made up of players who have had no previous practice together.
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Scrubbed.
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Scrubbing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To rub hard, esp. with something rough.
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To be laborious and penurious:-pr.p. scrubbing; pa.t. and pa.p. scrubbed.
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One who works hard and lives meanly: anything small or mean: a worn-out brush: low underwood.
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SCRUBBER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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