Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: scrub
IPA transcription: [skɹ'ʌb]
Pronunciations of scrub
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: scrub
    Meaning: (of domestic animals) not selectively bred
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: scrub, scour
    Meaning: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back"
  • Synonyms: scrub, scrub_up
    Meaning: wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"
Usage examples
  • “So Adam Eve these two fella go along scrub.
  • Every man was watching the scrub to see the effect of the discharge.
  • This White Man shall scrub my kitchen-floor for the rest of his life!"
  • There'll be a practice game to-night; we'll play against a picked up scrub team.
  • When they finish eat ’m, my word, they fright like hell, and they go hide along scrub.
  • The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft, who had a favourite food and a pet theory.
  • The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft, who had a favourite food and a pet theory.
  • Chris and Amos lay belly down in a low clump of pine scrub at the top of a precipitous rocky pinnacle.
  • But I had to do something, didn't I?--I couldn't possibly scrub the King's kitchen for the rest of my life.
  • The tents occupied by the wreckers had been enclosed in a thick hedge of scrub to protect them from the drifting sand.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Exmoor, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Common chiffchaff, License CC BY-SA 4.0