Scrubbing

Definition: Scrubbing

Scrubbing

Noun

1. The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scrubbing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Environment

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Synonyms: Scrubbing

Crosswords: Scrubbing

Scrubbing floors for Beverly Leslie. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

His mother was a widow, all crippled up. She was scrubbing floors. (Teen Wolf; writing credit: Joseph Loeb III; Matthew Weisman)

Hosing and scrubbing as best they can ("All I Wanna Do"; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

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Books

• Dry Scrubbing Technologies for Flue Gas Desulfurization (reference)

• Handbook for Flue Gas Desulfurization Scrubbing With Limestone (reference)

• Research trends in air pollution control : scrubbing, hot gas clean-up, sampling, and analysis (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Fig. 1 - Halibut cutting knife; Fig. 2 - Scraping knife to remove muscle and flesh from backbone after cutting Fig. 3 - Squillgee for pushing ice in pen Fig. 4 - Oak mallet for breaking ice. Fig. 5 - Oak broom for scrubbing halibut Drawings by Capt. J. W. Collins.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Crewmen scrubbing hammocks on the forecastle, during the cruise around the World, 1908. Note 12"/45 guns and man inside the winch cover (in center).Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. New York, scrubbing down.Credit: Library of Congress.

Scrubbing down decks.Credit: Library of Congress.

Scrubbing saddle at Eastern States Fair. Springfield, Massachusetts.Credit: Library of Congress.

Scrubbing white steps. Baltimore, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Love was not made to cower and crouch like an English housemaid whose knees are callused with scrubbing.

And she went back to her scrubbing in the sun.

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Health

Avoid hard back-and-forth scrubbing. (references)

Children may return to day care after the first treatment dose, after bathing, and after trimming and scrubbing nails. (references)

Warm compresses should be applied to the lid to loosen the crusts, followed by a light scrubbing of the eyelid with a cotton swab and a mixture of water and baby shampoo. (references)

Business

However, the United States has the leading technology for scrubbing systems, which are widely used in the removals of toxic-containing pollutants and odors. (references)

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Expressions using "scrubbing": atmospheric scrubbing ♦ scrubbing board ♦ scrubbing broom ♦ scrubbing brush ♦ scrubbing cloth ♦ throwaway wet scrubbing process. Additional references.

Beginning with "scrubbing": scrubbing-board, scrubbing-brush.

Ending with "scrubbing": self-scrubbing, sulphur-scrubbing, teeth-scrubbing.

Albanian

furçë e ashpër (scrub brush, scrubbing brush). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حك (abrade, abrasion, friction, itch, paw, polish, rasp, rub, sand, scrabble, scrape, scraping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

твърда четка (scrub brush, scrubbing brush). (various references)

Chinese 

洗刷 (scrub, scrubbed, scrubs). (various references)

Czech

kartáè (brush, scrub brush, scrubbing brush). (various references)

Danish

skrubning, scrubbing, vaskning (washing), vask og børstning, vådudskilning, udsletning af oplysninger (sanitization, sanitizing), rensning (brushing, cleaning, conditioning, decontamination, dirt removal, do up, purification, refining, scavenging, scraping, shake, shaking, stripping, winnowing), gasvaskning. (various references)

Dutch

schrobben (to scrub), sanering (clean up, cleanup, municipal sewage system, rationalization, reconstruction, redevelopment, rehabilitation, remediation, reorganization, sanitation, sanitization, sanitizing, sewage disposal, urban renewal, urban sewerage system, wastewater disposal), wassing (ablution, stripping), wassen (accrue, arise, ascend, bathe, blend, bottoming, get up, go up, grow, lift, mingle, mix, put on a wash, rise, shuffle, tint, wash, washing), uitwassen (elution, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, scavenging, wash, wash out, washout), boenen (polish, rub). (various references)

Finnish

pesu (elutriation, grading, wash, washing), peseminen (washing), kaasun pesu, hankaus (friction, rub, to scrub), hangata (chafe, gall, rub, to scrub), datan poisto (sanitization, sanitizing), datan poistaminen (sanitization, sanitizing). (various references)

French

lavage (scouring). (various references)

German

Schrubben (scrub, swab, to scrub, to swab), Waschen und Bürsten, Waschen (bathe, clean, clean down, launder, lave, pan, shampoo, sluice, sponge down, to bathe, to give a wash, to launder, to lave, to wash, wash, washing), Waesche (clothes, linen, stripping), Löschen von Daten auf temporär belegten Speichermedien (sanitization, sanitizing), Auswaschen (eat away, elution, erode, flush out, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, rain-out, rinse out, sponge out, swill, wash out, washout, wash-out). (various references)

Greek 

έκπλυση (lavage, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, rain-out, rinsing, stripping, wash out, washout, wash-out), πλύσιμο-βούρτσισμα, τρίψιμο (crocking, rub, rubdown, to scrub), διαγραφή από τη μνήμη (sanitization, sanitizing). (various references)

Hebrew 

כסכסת (scrubbing board, wash board). (various references)

Hungarian

súrolás (scour, scouring, scrub), gáztisztítás. (various references)

Italian

spazzare (sweep, sweep up, to scrub), lavatura a spazzola, lavatura (dishwater, scouring, stripping, wash, washing, water for rinsing), lavaggio (air release, bleeding, carcass wash, elutriation, grading, lavage, rain-out, scavenging, venting, wash, washing, washing down, wash-out), filtrazione (filtering, filtration, leak through the dike, leak through the dyke, leak through the embankment, percolation, piping, seepage, seeping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

拭き掃除 (cleaning). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふきそうじ (cleaning). (various references)

Korean 

� �거 (Avoidance, Elimination, removal, Removing). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubbingscray

Portuguese

limpeza da memória (sanitization, sanitizing), lavagem-escovadela, lavagem do vapor, lavagem (ablution, cleaning, elutriation, grading, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, rinse, rinsing, scab, scavenging, scouring, separation, shell, slipslop, wash, wash out, washing, washout, washup, wish-wash), esfregar (fret, mop, rub, rub down, scour, scrape, scrub, to scrub), esfrega (rub, scrub, to scrub). (various references)

Russian 

очищать очистка (purging, sanitize, scour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

četka za ribanje (scrub brush, scrubber, scrubbing brush). (various references)

Spanish

depuración (clean-up, clearing, debugging, depuration, purge, purifying, screening, sieving, sifting, stripper, stripping tower, trouble-shooting). (various references)

Swedish

skrubbande. (various references)

Turkish

temizlik fırçası (scrubbing brush), tahta bezi (floor cloth, scrubbing cloth, swab), ovma fırçası (scrubbing brush). (various references)

Ukranian 

очистка (clearing, offscouring, purification, scouring, weeding), миття рук. (various references)

Vietnamese 

b� n chải cứng (scrubbing-brush), b� n chải để cọ (scrubbing-brush). (various references)

Misspellings

"Scrubbing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schubring, scrabbing, Strubig. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: curbings, rubbings.

-2 letters: brucins, curbing, cursing, rubbing, subbing, subring.

-3 letters: brings, brucin, bruins, burins, busing, cubing, curing, incurs, unrigs.

-4 letters: brigs, bring, brins, bruin, bungs, burbs, burgs, burin, burns, cribs, cuing, curbs, curns, girns, grins, grubs, incur, incus, rings, ruing, ruins, rungs, runic, scrub, suing, unrig, using.

-5 letters: bibs, bigs, bins, brig, brin, bris, bubs, bugs, bung, buns, burg, burn, burs, cigs, crib, cris, crus, cubs, curb, curn, curs, gibs, gins, girn, gnus, grin, grub, guns, nibs, nubs, ribs, rigs, ring, rins, rubs, rugs, ruin, rung, runs, sibb, sign, sing, snib, snub, snug, sung, unci, urbs, uric, urns.

+2 letters: subscribing.

+4 letters: nightclubbers.

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