Definition of Scrubbed

1. Adjective. Made clean by scrubbing. "Boys with scrubbed necks and faces"

Similar to: Clean

Definition of Scrubbed

1. a. Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

Definition of Scrubbed

1. Verb. (past of scrub) ¹

2. Verb. (''in surgery'') with hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scrubbed

1. scrub [v] - See also: scrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrubbed

scrub bull
scrub fowl
scrub nurse
scrub oak
scrub oaks
scrub palmetto
scrub pine
scrub plane
scrub robin
scrub robins
scrub typhus
scrub up
scrub wallabies
scrub wallaby
scrubbable
scrubbed (current term)
scrubbers
scrubbier
scrubbiest
scrubbily
scrubbiness
scrubbing
scrubbing brush
scrubbings
scrubbird
scrubboard
scrubboards
scrubby
scrubeenie

Literary usage of Scrubbed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1871)
"... bo pickled, scrubbed with sand, washed, scrubbed with à portion of the depositing solution, and then placed in the depositing-trough ; after deposition, ..."

2. A Treatise on the Inspection of Concrete Construction: Containing Practical by Jerome Cochran (1913)
"scrubbed OE BRUSHED FINISH A scrubbed or brushed finish is obtained by ... For scrubbed or brushed surfaces, all that is required of the forms is that the ..."

3. A Treatise on the Inspection of Concrete Construction: Containing Practical by Jerome Cochran (1913)
"scrubbed OR BRUSHED FINISH A scrubbed or brushed finish is obtained by ... For scrubbed or brushed surfaces, all that is required of the forms is that the ..."

4. Our Old Home: And English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1898)
"... appears not to have been scrubbed much; for I touched it with my finger, and found it slightly rough; but it is strange that the many footsteps should ..."

5. Our Old Home, and English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1912)
"abouts, appears not to have been scrubbed much ; for I touched it with my finger, and found it slightly rough; but it is strange that the many footsteps ..."

6. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1873)
"There is a deal to do in this house, and few enough to do it, if beds are to be made, and meals cooked ; not to say floors scrubbed, and clothes scoured» We ..."

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