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scrub
noun
1 scrub
Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes.
synonyms: bush, chaparral.
Roget 367:
vegetable,
vegetable kingdom;
flora,
verdure.
plant;
tree,
shrub,
bush;
creeper;
herb,
herbage;
grass.
annual;
perennial,
biennial,
triennial;
exotic.
timber,
forest;
wood,
woodlands;
timberland;
hurst†,
frith†,
holt,
weald†,
park,
chase,
greenwood,
brake,
grove,
copse,
coppice,
bocage†,
tope,
clump of trees,
thicket,
spinet,
spinney;
underwood,
brushwood;
scrub;
boscage,
bosk†,
ceja [Sp.],
chaparal,
motte [U.S.];
arboretum
etc.
371.
bush,
jungle,
prairie;
heath,
heather;
fern,
bracken;
furze,
gorse,
whin;
grass,
turf;
pasture,
pasturage;
turbary†;
sedge,
rush,
weed;
fungus,
mushroom,
toadstool;
lichen,
moss,
conferva†,
mold;
growth;
alfalfa,
alfilaria†,
banyan;
blow,
blowth†;
floret†,
petiole;
pin grass,
timothy,
yam,
yew,
zinnia.
foliage,
branch,
bough,
ramage†,
stem,
tigella†;
spray
etc.
51;
leaf.
flower,
blossom,
bine†;
flowering plant;
timber tree,
fruit tree;
pulse,
legume.
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Roget 653:
uncleanness
etc.
adj.;
impurity;
immundity†,
immundicity†;
impurity
etc.
961
[of mind].
defilement,
contamination
etc.
v.;
defoedation†;
soilure†,
soiliness†;
abomination;
leaven;
taint,
tainture†;
fetor
etc.
401†.
decay;
putrescence,
putrefaction;
corruption;
mold,
must,
mildew,
dry rot,
mucor,
rubigo†.
slovenry†;
slovenliness
etc.
adj.;
squalor.
dowdy,
drab,
slut,
malkin†,
slattern,
sloven,
slammerkin†,
slammock†,
slummock†,
scrub,
draggle-tail,
mudlark†,
dust-man,
sweep;
beast.
dirt,
filth,
soil,
slop;
dust,
cobweb,
flue;
smoke,
soot,
smudge,
smut,
grit,
grime,
raff†;
sossle†,
sozzle†.
sordes†,
dregs,
grounds,
lees;
argol†;
sediment,
settlement heeltap†;
dross,
drossiness†;
mother†,
precipitate,
scoriae,
ashes,
cinders.
recrement†,
slag;
scum,
froth.
hogwash;
ditchwater†,
dishwater,
bilgewater†;
rinsings,
cheeseparings;
sweepings
etc.
(useless refuse)
645;
offscourings†,
outscourings†;
off scum;
caput mortuum [Lat.],
residuum,
sprue,
fecula [Lat.],
clinker,
draff†;
scurf,
scurfiness†;
exuviae [Lat.],
morphea;
fur,
furfur†;
dandruff,
tartar.
riffraff;
vermin,
louse,
flea,
bug,
chinch†.
mud,
mire,
quagmire,
alluvium,
silt,
sludge,
slime,
slush,
slosh,
sposh [U.S.].
spawn,
offal,
gurry [U.S.];
lientery†;
garbage,
carrion;
excreta
etc.
299;
slough,
peccant humor,
pus,
matter,
suppuration,
lienteria†;
faeces,
feces,
excrement,
ordure,
dung,
crap [Vulg.],
shit [Vulg.];
sewage,
sewerage;
muck;
coprolite;
guano,
manure,
compost.
dunghill,
colluvies†,
mixen†,
midden,
bog,
laystall†,
sink,
privy,
jakes;
toilet,
john,
head;
cess†,
cesspool;
sump,
sough,
cloaca,
latrines,
drain,
sewer,
common sewer;
Cloacina;
dust hole.
sty,
pigsty,
lair,
den,
Augean stable†,
sink of corruption;
slum,
rookery.
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Roget 876:
commonalty,
democracy;
obscurity;
low condition,
low life,
low society,
low company;
bourgeoisie;
mass of the people,
mass of society;
Brown Jones and Robinson;
lower classes,
humbler classes,
humbler orders;
vulgar herd,
common herd;
rank and file,
hoc genus omne [Lat.];
the many,
the general,
the crowd,
the people,
the populace,
the multitude,
the million,
the masses,
the mobility,
the peasantry;
king Mob;
proletariat;
fruges consumere nati [Lat.],
demos,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
great unwashed;
man in the street.
mob;
rabble,
rabble rout;
chaff,
rout,
horde,
canaille;
scum of the people,
residuum of the people,
dregs of the people,
dregs of society;
swinish multitude,
foex populi†;
trash;
profanum vulgus [Lat.],
ignobile vulgus [Lat.];
vermin,
riffraff,
ragtag and bobtail;
small fry.
commoner,
one of the people,
democrat,
plebeian,
republican,
proletary†,
proletaire†,
roturier†,
Mr.
Snooks,
bourgeois,
epicier [Fr.],
Philistine,
cockney;
grisette†,
demimonde.
peasant,
countryman,
boor,
carle†,
churl;
villain,
villein;
terrae filius [Lat.],
son of the land;
serf,
kern†,
tyke,
tike,
chuff†,
ryot†,
fellah;
longshoreman;
swain,
clown,
hind;
clod,
clodhopper;
hobnail,
yokel,
bog-trotter,
bumpkin;
plowman,
plowboy†;
rustic,
hayseed [Slang],
lunkhead [U.S.],
chaw-bacon [Slang],
tiller of the soil;
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
groundling†;
gaffer,
loon,
put,
cub,
Tony Lumpkin†,
looby†,
rube [U.S.],
lout,
underling;
gamin;
rough;
pot-wallopper†,
slubberdegullion†;
vulgar fellow,
low fellow;
cad,
curmudgeon.
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack†;
nobody,
nobody one knows;
hesterni quirites [Lat.],
pessoribus orti [Lat.];
bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.],
novus homo [Lat.],
snob,
gent,
mushroom,
no one knows who,
adventurer;
man of straw.
beggar,
gaberlunzie†,
muckworm†,
mudlark†,
sans culotte,
raff†,
tatterdemalion,
caitiff,
ragamuffin,
Pariah,
outcast of society,
tramp,
vagabond,
bezonian†,
panhandler [Slang],
sundowner†,
chiffonnier,
Cinderella,
cinderwench†,
scrub,
jade;
gossoon†.
Goth,
Vandal,
Hottentot,
Zulu,
savage,
barbarian,
Yahoo;
unlicked cub†,
rough diamond†.
barbarousness,
barbarism;
boeotia.
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Polish: chaszcze, debra, zarośla
2 scrub
The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water.
synonyms: scouring, scrubbing.
Polish: szorowanie
verb
1 scrub
Clean with hard rubbing:
— She scrubbed his back.
synonym: scour.
Roget 331:
rub,
scratch,
scrape,
scrub,
slide,
fray,
rasp,
graze,
curry,
scour,
polish,
rub out,
wear down,
gnaw;
file,
grind
etc.
(reduce to powder)
330.
set one's teeth on edge;
rosin.
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Roget 652:
be clean,
render clean
etc.
adj.;
clean,
cleanse;
mundify†,
rinse,
wring,
flush,
full,
wipe,
mop,
sponge,
scour,
swab,
scrub,
brush up.
wash,
lave,
launder,
buck;
absterge†,
deterge†;
decrassify†;
clear,
purify;
depurate†,
despumate†,
defecate;
purge,
expurgate,
elutriate [Chem],
lixiviate†,
edulcorate†,
clarify,
refine,
rack;
filter,
filtrate;
drain,
strain.
disinfect,
fumigate,
ventilate,
deodorize;
whitewash;
castrate,
emasculate.
sift,
winnow,
pick,
weed,
comb,
rake,
brush,
sweep.
rout out,
clear out,
sweep out
&c.;
make a clean sweep of.
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2 scrub
Wash thoroughly:
— Surgeons must scrub prior to an operation.
synonym: scrub up.
3 scrub
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled:
— We had to scrub our vacation plans.
synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch.
Dutch: afketsen, afspringen, afstuiten, annuleren, doorhalen, schrappen
adjective
1 scrub
of domestic animals Not selectively bred.
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