I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
facial scrub
scrubbing brush
sweep/scrub sth clean (= use a brush to clean something )
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She quickly swept the floor clean.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
floor
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After she had swept the room, she scrubbed the floor .
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He had scrubbed the kitchen floor , cleaned the stove, and was sprinkling borax around the edges of the room.
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After she had scrubbed the floor , she polished the furniture.
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Before Easter, his wife will join the other neighborhood ladies for the traditional scrubbing of the church floors .
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Before she polished the furniture, she scrubbed the floor .
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I entered a hall crammed with low stretcher beds, placed row upon row on an antiseptic, scrubbed floor .
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Before she scrubbed the floor , she swept the room.
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A lawyer whose son was hospitalized with bulbar polio worked in the hospital kitchen scrubbing the floors .
kitchen
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He had scrubbed the kitchen floor, cleaned the stove, and was sprinkling borax around the edges of the room.
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At eleven it was understood that I washed the breakfast things and scrubbed the kitchen floor before I started my homework.
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The women polish the furniture, scrub the kitchen and weed the flowerbeds while Mrs McCormick is gone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Scrub the potatoes and boil them for 5-10 minutes.
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Scrub the potatoes, then put them in a pan of boiling water.
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Lou was on her knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor.
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Martin washed the mud off his hands and scrubbed his nails.
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Part of my job was to wash the dishes and scrub the floors.
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The kitchen floor needs to be scrubbed and waxed.
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We haven't really got enough money for the trip -- let's just scrub it.
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Yesterday's shuttle launch was scrubbed just ten minutes before liftoff.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After she had swept the room, she scrubbed the floor.
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Fabric boots should be scrubbed with clean water to remove the dirt and allowed to dry naturally.
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He had scrubbed the kitchen floor, cleaned the stove, and was sprinkling borax around the edges of the room.
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Launch attempts were scrubbed seconds before liftoff on Thursday and Friday because of technical glitches.
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My grandmother loved opera, and as she scrubbed the floor she would sing one aria or another.
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She was damp, she was sore from scrubbing with the shower mitt, her hair hung in rats' tails.
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The kids are all scrubbed and coiffed, backpacks fitted firmly on square shoulders.
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They made us scrub all the way through pregnancy as well, right up to the end.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
give
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If it does need sanding, get this done and then give the scrub and wash treatment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Christine reached the hut from the road by a steep track through the scrub and so avoided the house.
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Instead of the lake, my gaze rested upon a broken expanse of scrub .
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No one believed they would be scrubs, either.
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One outstanding local example was the Broyle in Ringmer, 2000 acres of scrub and clay mire, an old deer park.
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Single-brooded, some nightingales start the flight south - to tropical Savannah, or thorny scrub - at the end of July.
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There was nothing around them, just a bit of scrub in the distance.
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Try using fine sea salt as a scrub - this will help dry out blemishes naturally because it's slightly antiseptic.