Scrub

adjective

  1. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

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noun

  1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

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  2. One who is a freak or unable to complete easy tasks.

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  3. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.

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  4. One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.

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  5. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.

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  6. One not on the first team of players, a substitute.

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  7. An instance of scrubbing.

    scrubbing

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  8. A cancellation.

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  9. A worn-out brush.

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  10. One who scrubs.

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  11. Clothing worn while performing surgery.

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verb

  1. 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.

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  2. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;.

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  3. To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

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  4. To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.

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  5. To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets.

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  6. To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing-like motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.

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  7. To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar.

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