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SCRUBBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scrubbed mean?
• SCRUBBED (adjective)
The adjective SCRUBBED has 1 sense:
1. made clean by scrubbing
Familiarity information: SCRUBBED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made clean by scrubbing
Context example:
boys with scrubbed necks and faces
Similar:
clean (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits)
Context examples
He washed his teeth, and scrubbed his hands with a kitchen scrub-brush till he saw a nail-brush in a drug-store window and divined its use.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There was Aylward squatting cross-legged in his shirt, while he scrubbed away at his chain-mail brigandine, whistling loudly the while.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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