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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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