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Scrub

//skɹʌb// adj, noun, verb, slang

Adjective

1
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
"How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!"

Adjective

Noun

1
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant. uncountable
"oak scrub"
2
An instance of scrubbing.
3
the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water wordnet
4
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. uncountable
5
A cancellation.
"Unacceptable winds aloft caused four scrubs and one hold; adverse weather caused a scrub; […]"

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6
dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes wordnet
7
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. US, countable
8
A worn-out brush.
"A scrub [broom worn out] Scopa detrita."
9
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. countable, derogatory
"A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind."
10
One who scrubs.
11
One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. countable, derogatory, slang
"Wow, she really scored 0? What a scrub!"
12
That which scrubs.
13
One not on the first team of players; a substitute. countable, slang
14
That which scrubs.; An exfoliant for the body.
15
A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating. Internet, countable, derogatory, slang
16
Clothing worn while performing surgery. in-plural
17
Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers). broadly, in-plural
"A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle."
18
Informal attire or dress code; morning dress obsolete, slang
"The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her "Scrub.""

Verb

1
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 transitive
"to scrub a floor"
2
wash thoroughly wordnet
3
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour intransitive
4
clean with hard rubbing wordnet
5
To be diligent and penurious figuratively, intransitive
"to scrub hard for a living"

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postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled wordnet
7
To call off a scheduled event; to cancel. transitive
"Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather."
8
To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets transitive
"The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system."
9
To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
10
To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.

Etymology 1

Late Middle English in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, possibly under Old Norse influence.

Etymology 2

Late Middle English in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, possibly under Old Norse influence.

Etymology 3

From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English scrobben (“groom a horse with a currycomb”); from Middle Dutch schrobben (“clean by scrubbing”).

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