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scrub

the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

(of domestic animals) not selectively bred

wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"

clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back"

Synonyms:

• a nobody,
• a nothing,
• abandon,
• ablate,
• ablation,
• ablution,
• abort,
• abrade,
• abrase,
• abrasion,
• abrasive,
• afforestation,
• arboretum,
• attrition,
• baptize,
• bark,
• bath,
• bathe,
• belay,
• boondocks,
• bramble,
• brier,
• brier bush,
• brush,
• brushwood,
• buff,
• buffing,
• burnishing,
• bush,
• bushveld,
• call off,
• cancel,
• cease,
• chafe,
• chafing,
• chase,
• cipher,
• cleaning out,
• cleanse,
• climax forest,
• cloud forest,
• common man,
• cut it out,
• dendrology,
• desist,
• detrition,
• discontinue,
• do away with,
• douche,
• douching,
• dressing,
• drop,
• drop it,
• dummy,
• elution,
• elutriation,
• end,
• enema,
• erase,
• erasure,
• erode,
• erosion,
• figurehead,
• file,
• filing,
• flush,
• flush out,
• flushing,
• flushing out,
• forest,
• forest land,
• forest preserve,
• forestry,
• fray,
• frazzle,
• fret,
• fretting,
• fringing forest,
• gall,
• gallery forest,
• galling,
• gargle,
• give over,
• give up,
• gnaw,
• gnaw away,
• grate,
• graze,
• grazing,
• greenwood,
• grind,
• grinding,
• halt,
• hanger,
• have done with,
• hold,
• holystone,
• index forest,
• insignificancy,
• irrigate,
• irrigation,
• jackstraw,
• jungle,
• jungles,
• knock it off,
• lather,
• lathering,
• launder,
• lavabo,
• lavage,
• lavation,
• lave,
• laving,
• lay off,
• leave off,
• lightweight,
• limation,
• little fellow,
• little guy,
• man of straw,
• mediocrity,
• mop,
• mop up,
• mopping,
• mopping up,
• national forest,
• nebbish,
• nobody one knows,
• nonentity,
• obscurity,
• palmetto barrens,
• park,
• park forest,
• pine barrens,
• pip-squeak,
• polish,
• polishing,
• poor relation,
• primeval forest,
• protection forest,
• punk,
• quit,
• rain forest,
• rasp,
• rasping,
• raze,
• reforestation,
• refrain,
• relinquish,
• renounce,
• rinse,
• rinse out,
• rinsing,
• ritually immerse,
• rub,
• rub away,
• rub off,
• rub out,
• rubbing away,
• runt,
• sandblasting,
• sanding,
• scour,
• scouring,
• scrape,
• scraping,
• scratch,
• scratching,
• scrub up,
• scrubbing,
• scrubbing up,
• scrubland,
• scrubwood,
• scuff,
• secondary,
• selection forest,
• shampoo,
• shining,
• shower,
• shrimp,
• shrub,
• shrubbery,
• shrubland,
• shrubwood,
• silviculture,
• skin,
• sluice,
• sluice out,
• small fry,
• small potato,
• small potatoes,
• smoothing,
• soap,
• soaping,
• sponge,
• sponging,
• sprout forest,
• squirt,
• squit,
• stand of timber,
• state forest,
• stay,
• stop,
• subaltern,
• subordinate,
• swab,
• swabbing,
• syringe,
• terminate,
• timber,
• timberland,
• toivel,
• tree veld,
• tub,
• underling,
• understrapper,
• virgin forest,
• wash,
• wash out,
• wash up,
• washing,
• washing up,
• washout,
• washup,
• wear,
• wear away,
• wearing away,
• whiffet,
• whippersnapper,
• wildwood,
• wiping up,
• wood,
• woodland,
• woods