scrubbed

Chemistry. to remove (impurities or undesirable components) from a gas by chemical means, as sulfur dioxide from smokestack gas or carbon dioxide from exhaled air in life-support packs.

to cancel or postpone (a space flight or part of a mission): Ground control scrubbed the spacewalk.

Slang. to do away with; cancel: Scrub your vacation plans—there's work to do!

verb (used without object)

to cleanse something by hard rubbing.

to cleanse one's hands and arms as a preparation to performing or assisting in surgery (often followed by up ).

noun

an act or instance of scrubbing.

10.

a canceled or postponed space flight, launching, scheduled part of a space mission, etc.

11.

something, as a cosmetic preparation, used for scrubbing.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English scrobben (noun) < Middle Dutch schrobben

Related forms

scrub·ba·ble, adjective

non·scrub·ba·ble, adjective

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scrub¹ (skrʌb)

—vb (foll by up) , scrubs, scrubbing, scrubbed
1.	to rub (a surface) hard, with or as if with a brush, soap, and water, in order to clean it
2.	to remove (dirt), esp by rubbing with a brush and water
3.	(of a surgeon) to wash the hands and arms thoroughly before operating
4.	(tr) to purify (a vapour or gas) by removing impurities
5.	informal (tr) to delete or cancel
6.	slang (intr) horse racing (of jockeys) to urge a horse forwards by moving the arms and whip rhythmically forwards and backwards alongside its neck

—n
7.	the act of or an instance of scrubbing

[C14: from Middle Low German schrubben, or Middle Dutch schrobben]

scrub² (skrʌb)

—n
1.	a. vegetation consisting of stunted trees, bushes, and other plants growing in an arid area
	b. (as modifier): scrub vegetation
2.	an area of arid land covered with such vegetation
3.	a. an animal of inferior breeding or condition
	b. (as modifier): a scrub bull
4.	a small or insignificant person
5.	anything stunted or inferior
6.	(US), (Canadian) sport a player not in the first team
7.	informal (Austral) the scrub a remote place, esp one where contact with people can be avoided

—*adj*
8.	small, stunted, or inferior
9.	(US), (Canadian) sport
	a. (of a player) not in the first team
	b. (of a team) composed of such players
	c. (of a contest) between scratch or incomplete teams

[C16: variation of shrub¹]

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Word Origin & History

scrub

"rub hard," c.1300, perhaps from M.Du. or M.L.G. schrubben "to scrub," or from an unrecorded O.E. cognate, or from a Scand. source (cf. Dan. skrubbe "to scrub"), probably ult. from some cognate of shrub, used as a cleaning tool (cf. the evolution of broom, brush). Meaning "to cancel" is attested from

1828 (popularized during World War II with ref. to flights), probably from notion of "to rub out, erase." The noun is recorded from 1621.

scrub

"brush, shrubs," late 14c., "low, stunted tree," variant of shrobbe (see shrub), perhaps infl. by a Scandinavian word (cf. Dan. dial. skrub "a stunted tree, brushwood"). Collective sense is attested from 1805. Transferred sense of "mean, insignificant fellow" is from 1580s;

U.S. sports meaning "athlete not on the varsity team" is recorded from 1892.

Slang Dictionary

scrub definition

tv.
to cancel something. : We had to scrub the whole plan because of the weather.

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Example sentences

Out went the idea of the kitchen as service area, where housewives scrubbed,

chopped and boiled.

When they scrubbed sulfur out of coal and industrial smoke stacks, it made

sense.

Historic sights, newly scrubbed and restored, are coming out from behind

scaffolding.

Out of her own earnings she bought a mop and regularly scrubbed the lawyer's

office.