scrub

1. (transitive)To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, sponge or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening.

   to scrub a floor with a cleanser

   to scrub your fingernails

   clean with hard rubbing

2. To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, sponge or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening.

   (intransitive, transitive)To rub anything vigorously, especially with a wet brush; to scour.

   She has been scrubbing for an hour, but the stain won't come out.

3. (intransitive, transitive)Synonym of scrub in (“To thoroughly wash one's hands and forearms in preparation for performing a surgery”).

   The surgeon readied himself, dressing, scrubbing and checking his notes for the next patient.

   wash thoroughly

4. (figuratively, intransitive, transitive)To be diligent and penurious.

   I've had to scrub hard for a living

5. (transitive)To eliminate or remove (something); to render (something) unretrievable.

   I will scrub the inefficiencies out of the system.

   We scrubbed the low performers from the team.

6. To eliminate or remove (something); to render (something) unretrievable.

   (transitive)To call off (a scheduled event); to cancel (something).

   Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.

   The project has been scrubbed in the latest budget.

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7. (transitive)To check data in invoices and other records in order to find, fix, document or otherwise handle anomalies, errors or omissions.

   Scrub the billing files.

8. (transitive)To study in great detail a contract or other agreement in order to identify and remove risks, liability or other issues.

9. (transitive)To eliminate or correct (data) from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets.

   The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.

10. (transitive)To remove unflattering or unhelpful information from (something).

    She's scrubbing her social media accounts before the background check begins.

11. (transitive)To remove impurities from a gas or vapor.

12. To move or manipulate (something) with an action analogous to scrubbing.

    scrub the ground (dance move)

1. This floor needs a good scrubbing.

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2. We need to scrub the floor.

   deWir müssen den Fußboden schrubben.

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3. Tom asked Mary to scrub the toilet.

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4. Tom spent all afternoon scrubbing the walls.

   deTom hat den ganzen Nachmittag die Wände geschrubbt.

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5. She scrubbed the kitchen floor with a brush.

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regular · Lesson

• scrub upTo clean or wash by scrubbing.
• scrub outTo leave a surgical operating theater where one has previously scrubbed in.
• scrub inTo thoroughly wash one's hands and forearms in preparation for performing a surgery.
• scrub downTo clean through a scrubbing action; to thoroughly clean up by scrubbing.