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Antonyms for scrubbed

Grammar : Verb
Spell : skruhb-id
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskrʌb ɪd


Definition of scrubbed

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 :
  • The floor was scrubbed to whiteness, the very stove was burnished.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • She scrubbed hard, snuffling all the time, and talking volubly.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • The floor had not only been washed clean; it had been scrubbed white.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • She looked as if she too had, like the step, been scrubbed a few minutes before.
  • Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • She scrubbed the knuckles of one hand roughly across her quivering lips.
  • Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • He patted his face, and then scrubbed the wet tangle of brown hair.
  • Extract from : « Dream Town » by Henry Slesar
  • He ripped off jacket and shirt, and, bare to the waist, scrubbed at the boy's skin.
  • Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  • She felt afraid of him, and she scrubbed her mouth where he had once kissed it.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • You might have eaten off her floors, they were scrubbed so white and clean.
  • Extract from : « Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends » by Fanny Fern
  • He scrubbed them, and turned Cis's fancifully scissored shelf-papers.
  • Extract from : « The Rich Little Poor Boy » by Eleanor Gates

Synonyms for scrubbed

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