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nettoyage
, frottement
, grattement
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Scrub
- (n.) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
- (n.) Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush. See Brush, above.
- (v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
- (a.) Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
- (n.) Something small and mean.
- (v. t.) 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; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
- (n.) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- (n.) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
- (n.) A worn-out brush.
- (n.) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
Synonyms:
Bush, Chaparral, Cur, Mixed, Mongrel, Scour, Scouring, Scrubbing, Underbred,
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• Scrubbed
- (imp. & p. p.) of Scrub
- (a.) Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
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