scrubbing

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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.”

noun

An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed.
The removal of impurities from gas.

Related words

Synonyms

seek scouring washout washing handwashing wash lavage scrubber laundry laundering cleansing purification lustration depuration purifying friction purge

Associated

sorbent cleans flue amine mea amines gourd looping bubbles droplets brushes

Rhymes

rubbing blubbing drubbing fibbing snubbing tubbing squibbing stubbing bebung clubbing

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