Word Finder - scrubbed

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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

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to scrub a floor

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

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To be diligent and penurious

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to scrub hard for a living

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To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.

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Engineers had to scrub the satellite launch due to bad weather.

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

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The street segment data from the National Post Office will need to be scrubbed before it can be integrated into our system.

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(audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing 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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(audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.

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• seek

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With hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves.

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Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

She faced him, her pink face scrubbed clean.

Her skin was scrubbed clean, her dark hair wet.

She looked in the mirror, distraught, then scrubbed her face and turned off the shower.

She scrubbed her skin rosy for nearly an hour and finally abandoned the attempt to remove the guilt.

Her chamber smelled of jasmine, her scrubbed body of flower musk.

She pulled the pins from her hair and scrubbed it and then wiped the rivulets of water from her face.

Her whole house was scrubbed and cleaned on Saturdays; neither she nor the servants worked, and they all wore holiday dress and went to church.

Bathroom floors can be mopped and toilets scrubbed.

The woman finally emerged, pale and drawn but scrubbed clean.

Get pouty lips by applying the plumper to your freshly scrubbed lips.

Freshly scrubbed skin is the key to a luminous, radiant glow because it exposes a healthy layer of skin.

She scrubbed herself down, angry at the Immortals as a whole for tolerating a system that screwed over their mates and eliminated free will.

Amazon links have been scrubbed in protest at their ridiculous US ' one click ' lawsuit.

Cow byre The shop itself is a former cow byre, scrubbed and white washed, but sadly not staffed by milkmaids.

Staring with freshly scrubbed skin, I apply the blush to the apples of my cheeks.

In addition, if your betrothed feels as if he or she is being pushed into an agreement at the very last minute, the agreement could be scrubbed due to "coercion."

At first we thought she had gotten into some kind of mud or tar-like substance, so we bathed her and scrubbed her down well but no change.

Her back is scrubbed with antiseptic, and a local anesthetic is injected in the skin to numb the site.

The abdominal area is then scrubbed and painted with betadine or another antiseptic solution.

Twichell comforted me and I scrubbed him off and we got sociable.

When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white; and by the time the villagers had broken their fast the morning sun had dried my house sufficiently to allow me to move in again, and my meditations were almost uninterupted.

It is used for walls, doors, ceilings and high traffic areas since it is washable and can be scrubbed.

Films made decades ago are scrubbed down of fancy computer graphics and gratuitous violence or nudity.

Make sure your heels are scrubbed and your nails are clean.