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

1. transitive 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.
2. intransitive 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.
3. noun. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
4. noun. Something small and mean.
5. noun. A worn-out brush.
6. noun. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
7. noun. One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
8. adjective. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
9. noun. the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

   Synonyms: scouring, scrubbing

10. noun. dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

    Synonyms: bush, chaparral

11. verb. wash thoroughly

    "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"

12. verb. clean with hard rubbing

    "She scrubbed his back"

    Synonyms: scour

13. verb. postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled

    "Call off the engagement"

    "cancel the dinner party"

    Synonyms: cancel, scratch

14. adjective. (of domestic animals) not selectively bred

Synonyms

scouring, scrubbing, bush, chaparral, scour, cancel, scratch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scrub:

curbs

Common word forms

scrubs, scrubbed, scrubber, scrubbing

Words from these letters

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