n.
Function: verb
Inflected Form: scrubbed ; scrub · bing
Etymology: of Low German or Scandinavian origin; akin to Middle Low German & Middle Dutch schrubben to scrub, Swedish skrubba
Date: circa 1595
transitive verb
1 a (1) : to clean with hard rubbing : SCOUR (2) : to remove by scrubbing b : to subject to friction : RUB
2 : WASH 6C(2)
3 : CANCEL , ELIMINATE < scrubbed the flight because of bad weather>
intransitive verb
1 : to use hard rubbing in cleaning
2 : to prepare for performing surgery by scrubbing oneself
– scrub · ba · ble \ ' skr ə -b ə -b ə l \ adjective