scrub
擦洗,擦洗干净,擦伤,搓洗
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scrubbed, scrub·bing.
- : to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- : to subject to friction; rub.
- : to remove from something by hard rubbing while washing.
- : Chemistry. to remove from a gas by chemical means, as sulfur dioxide from smokestack gas or carbon dioxide from exhaled air in life-support packs.
- : to cancel or postpone: Ground control scrubbed the spacewalk.
- : Slang. to do away with; cancel: Scrub your vacation plans—there's work to do!
- : Computers. to perform routine maintenance on in memory or storage with scans that detect and correct data corruption: The system is automated to scrub and archive all active records in the database.to permanently erase, usually by writing over space where data had been stored and was later deleted, so that deleted data cannot be recovered: Scrub your computer’s hard drive before you sell or donate it.to delete so as to erase it from public record or social media: The marketing team scrubbed the disgraced celebrity spokesperson from their website within hours of the scandal.Before applying for jobs, I scrubbed a bunch of posts from my hard-partying past.
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scrubbed, scrub·bing.
- : to cleanse something by hard rubbing.
- : Digital Technology. to fast-forward or rewind in an audio or video file by dragging the progress marker forward or backward across the timeline bar: Scrub forward through the pregame and start playback from the kickoff.
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- : an act or instance of scrubbing.
- : a canceled or postponed space flight, launching, scheduled part of a space mission, etc.
- : something, as a cosmetic preparation, used for scrubbing.
- : scrubs, a uniform, durably designed for frequent washing and sanitizing, usually consisting of pants and a loose-fitting top, worn by doctors, nurses, and other medical staff, especially during surgery: surgical scrubs;nursing scrubs.
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- : scrub in / up to cleanse one's hands and arms as a preparation to performing or assisting in surgery.
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With the right ingredients and composition, a scalp scrub can bring you relief from itchiness and dryness as well as lasting satisfaction by improving your overall hair health.
While you’re scrubbing, Permar said, the most important thing to focus on is “getting soap everywhere, which takes 20 seconds to accomplish.”
To keep shoppers and employees safe—or least feeling safe—companies are scrubbing down high-traffic areas, disinfecting surfaces such as touchscreens more frequently, and even employing robots to wipe floors.
Standing in his scrubs, Akhtar had no idea when, or if, he would get back on the grid.
Have a copywriter familiar with regional dialects scrub through your copy to look for words, spelling, and colloquialisms that might not make sense for the area you’re targeting.
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.