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Antonyms for scrub

Grammar : Verb
Spell : skruhb
Phonetic Transcription : skrÊŒb

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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