scrubbed

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English

Definitions

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“to scrub a floor”
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
To be diligent and penurious“to scrub hard for a living”
To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.“Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.”

adjective

With hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves.
Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

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Synonyms

seek clean cleaned brushed purified painted bombed freshly anointed blew cleansed cleared laundered washed cleanly radiosterilized cerused

Associated

liftoff caustic umbilical soaked faulty brush utc scrub countdown methane launch

Rhymes

dubbed snubbed chubbed clubbed stubbed cribbed drubbed rubbed grubbed slubbed

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