A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing. / A device that removes impurities from gases. / (historical) A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.

A utensil in the form of a brush or a sponge on a long handle, used to scrub the back while bathing.

Covered with or consisting of scrub. / Inferior in size or quality.

A short brush with stiff bristles, held in the hand, used for scrubbing floors etc.

present participle of scrub

An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed. / The removal of impurities from gas.

(chemistry) A chemical engineering component that removes hydrochloric acid from a product such as a chlorinated hydrocarbon by treatment with a base

simple past tense and past participle of scrub

(surgery, not comparable) With hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves. / Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

plural of scrubber