HOW TO PRONOUNCE
scrubbed
/skɹʌbd/
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What does scrubbed mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of scrub
adjective
- Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
- Having been scrubbed; having received a scrubbing.
More meanings (3)
adjective
- Having been made to seem wholesome or virtuous due to public relations, censorship or similar methods.
- Dressed in scrubs; with hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves.
- Synonym of scrubbed up (Cleaned up; dressed up; having been made smart).
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IPA pronunciation
/skɹʌbd/
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Marilla worked fiercely and scrubbed the porch floor and the dairy shelves when she could find nothing else to do.
On Sundays he helped her in her apartment, carried coals, bottled wine, scrubbed the floors, and made himself generally useful.
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He scrubbed the floor and seats, blacked the stove, put clean sheets on the bunks, and then began to demolish Giddy’s picture gallery.
It should be treated by two or three applications, ten days apart, of a hot solution of creolin, well scrubbed into the skin.
She blacked boots and grates, and carried heavy coal-scuttles up and down stairs, and scrubbed floors and cleaned windows, and was ordered about by everybody.