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scrub

verb as in clean with force

Strong matches

verb as in cancel

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Do as Tumblr has done and scrub her last words off the Internet—erase everything she wanted the world to hear.

Havens is optimistic that if PHA beads could be used successfully in cosmetics without losing their ability to scrub.

It depicts an exhausted Texas oil field on scrub land, an old railroad bed and a watery ditch converging in the distance.

Mountain passes lead to high plains dotted with green scrub and otherworldly rock outcroppings.

The newest edition adapts the same principles to the digital age and urges kids to scrub their Facebook pages.

Our mothers their nurse-women, our sisters their scrub-women, our daughters their maid-women, and our wives their washer-women.

Before he could draw a bead, the rabbit vanished behind a distant scrub oak.

The scrub was so thick that they had to climb together and follow-my-leader along what appeared to be cattle tracks up the hill.

In their company we now made our way Northwards along a path through fairly thick scrub as high as a man's waist.

Ignoring the presence of his rival, Lamont passed aside and entered the scrub bush which fringed the odorous forest.

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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scrub, such as: brush, cleanse, mop, rub, scour, and wash.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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