Dictionary Entry
scrub
scrub is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
- 3noun
One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- 4noun
Something small and mean.
- 5noun
A worn-out brush.
- 6noun
A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
- 7noun
One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
- 8adjective
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
- 9noun
the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
- 10noun
dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- 11verb
wash thoroughly
"surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
- 12verb
clean with hard rubbing
"She scrubbed his back"
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- 13verb
postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
"Call off the engagement"
"cancel the dinner party"
- 14adjective
(of domestic animals) not selectively bred
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