- 1[singular] an act of scrubbing something I've given the floor a good scrub. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivegood verb + scrubgive somebody/something scrub + nounbrush See full entry
- 2[uncountable] small bushes and trees The bird disappeared into the scrub. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivedesert, low, dense, … … of scrubpatch verb + scrubbe covered in, be overgrown with See full entry See related entries: Plants
- 3(also scrubland) [uncountable] an area of dry land covered with small bushes and trees Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivedesert, low, dense, … … of scrubpatch verb + scrubbe covered in, be overgrown with See full entry
- 4scrubs [plural] (specialist) the special clothes worn by surgeons when they are doing medical operations Wordfinderoperationamputate, anaesthetic, graft, operation, procedure, scalpel, scrubs, stitch, surgery, transplant See related entries: Operations Word Originnoun sense 1 and noun sense 4 late 16th cent.: probably from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schrobben, schrubben. noun senses 2 to 3 late Middle English (in the sense ‘stunted tree’): variant of shrub.Extra examples The horses stood near a patch of scrub. The mountain was covered in scrub. The vegetation consisted of low scrub. miles of desert scrub I’ve given the floor a good scrub.
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