Antonyms for scrub

Grammar : Verb

Spell : skruhb

Phonetic Transcription : skrʌb

Definition of scrub

Origin : "rub hard," early 15c., earlier shrubben (c.1300), perhaps from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrubben "to scrub," or from an unrecorded Old English cognate, or from a Scandinavian source (cf. Danish skrubbe "to scrub"), probably ultimately from the Proto-Germanic root of shrub, used as a cleaning tool (cf. the evolution of broom, brush (n.1)).
Meaning "to cancel" is attested from 1828 (popularized during World War II with reference to flights), probably from notion of "to rub out, erase" an entry on a listing. Related: Scrubbed; scrubbing.

verb clean with force
verb cancel

Example sentences :

Ponds in the scrub could not easily be identified as channels.
Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell

And what boldness is this for a scrub of a servant to speak in such a way before her master?
Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire

I've had to let the fire go down here, an' scrub till I could ha' cried.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

Besides, she had tried to scrub his favorite violin with sapolio.
Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

I did not get into a single game, I was only used on the "scrub" in our practice.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

So mean-looking an individual was this guest that he had been nicknamed "The Scrub."
Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre

Choose nice potatoes, not too large, and scrub them perfectly clean.
Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison

There were no trees, except a grove of scrub pine perhaps a mile away.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

But not as a son this time, only as a servant, to scour and scrub to the end of his life.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

A mile from Eastboro, and he was alone in a grove of scrub pines.
Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Synonyms for scrub

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