Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: scrubbed
IPA transcription: [skɹ'ʌbd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: scrubbed
    Meaning: made clean by scrubbing; "fresh-scrubbed floors"; "boys with scrubbed necks and faces"
Usage examples
  • They had all been freshly scrubbed and polished, but they still smelled like crushed cockroaches.
  • She washed and scrubbed and scoured and baked from morning till night, and seemed to revel in the hard work that gave the needed exercise to her strong muscles.
  • All day the two men scrubbed the rocks faithfully, assisted at odd times by their impatient employer; but the thick splashes of paint clung desperately to the rugged surface of the rock, and the task was a hard one.
  • So the lad scraped and scrubbed it, but the gilding wouldn't go off, so he bound a piece of rag round it; and when the man came back, and asked what was the matter with his finger, the lad said he'd given it such a bad cut.
  • So the lad scraped and scrubbed it, but the gilding wouldn't go off, so he bound a piece of rag round it; and when the man came back, and asked what was the matter with his finger, the lad said he'd given it such a bad cut.