Synonym: buff, clean, massage, polish, rub, scour, shine, wash. Similar words: scrub brush, scrunch, scrutiny, scrupulous, inscrutable, rub, drub, rub off. Meaning: [skrʌb] n. 1. dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes 2. the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water. v. 1. clean with hard rubbing 2. wash thoroughly 3. postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled. adj. (of domestic animals) not selectively bred.
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61. There was more scrub there, but not enough for anyone to hide, unless they lay flat.
62. All my friends would be busy with their ink erasers trying to scrub me out of their address books.
63. Instead of the lake, my gaze rested upon a broken expanse of scrub.
64. Christine reached the hut from the road by a steep track through the scrub and so avoided the house.
65. The women polish the furniture, scrub the kitchen and weed the flowerbeds while Mrs McCormick is gone.
66. The trees gave way to scrub and there was little shade.
67. Take a dry, dormant savanna, desert or thorn scrub and rouse it into spring with rising temperatures.
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68. This ignored the fact that many had been created out of poor arable land or even poorer scrub.
69. Secluded gurgling tubs overlook mountain landscapes of pinon, juniper and scrub oak.
70. Before me lay a deep gulley choked with oleanders and thorny scrub, which descended precipitously down to the private beach.
71. I just scrub and scrub, I've got all the limescale off the bath.
72. Holliman decided that they had to take cover, so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets.
73. We used up about six towels, and took ages, each of us, to scrub the bath afterwards.
74. We slice green apples from my tree, scrub mussels and crabs, extract periwinkles from their shells.
75. Scrub away any residue with water and a stiff brush.
76. We haven't really got enough money for the trip -- let's just scrub it.
77. Now that the media is busily engaged in the scrub cycle, Forbes' will no longer be an unexamined life.
78. He got out, returned to the fog and the watery light and walking through scrub oak to the sea.
79. Use water and a mild detergent to scrub the mud off.
80. Let the pan soak a while before you scrub it.
81. Scrub the potatoes, then put them in a pan of boiling water.
82. Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean.
83. One outstanding local example was the Broyle in Ringmer, 2000 acres of scrub and clay mire, an old deer park.
84. She stepped over to the third sink and started to scrub up.
85. Scrub hens bounced off the windshield and iguanas skated across the plane of the hood.
86. Sometimes it is enough to scrub with ordinary bleach and rinse off, sealing with polyurethane afterwards as usual.
87. I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub, putting in plenty of elbow grease.
88. The occurrence of scrub and forest fires provides another mechanism whereby rocks can be subjected to significant thermal expansion and contraction.
89. I have listened with patience to your attempts at mitigation ... No, scrub round that.
90. Puny filled the scrub bucket and went to work with her brush.