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scrub

English

  1. 🔊 (of domestic animals) not selectively bred
  2. 🔊 the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
  3. 🔊 dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
  4. 🔊 wash thoroughly
    “surgeons must scrub prior to an operation”
  5. 🔊 clean with hard rubbing
    “She scrubbed his back”
  6. 🔊 postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
    “Call off the engagement”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 fregar to scrub
  2. 🔊 refregar to scrub, scour
  3. 🔊 tallar to scrub, to rub in
  4. 🔊 breña scrub, brush (thick vegetation)

Similar words

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