The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

Usage examples of scrubbing.

I ran through the hootch, slamming open the back screen door, Mai was there, squatting in the Vietnamese fashion, scrubbing at a wet flight suit with one hand.

In the smoggy gloaming, he went through the brickwork warrens of Griss Fell, past householders scrubbing their porches of the grit of machinofacture and graffitied coils, chatting from window to window across the little streets.

She washed her face, scrubbing until she looked like Cressida Mandeville again.

Miss Mannering herself walked into the morning room, trailed by the faithful Caliban, both of them greatly improved in appearance by thorough scrubbings.

Sorting through the clothes, she started with the thicker overdress, not sure just how much scrubbing she should do on any one piece.

Greek and Latin scribes were known to recycle parchment whenever they ran short, erasing one text by soaking the leaves in milk and then scrubbing at the ink with a pumice-stone before reinscribing the surface, now blank, with a new one, so that one text lay dormant and hidden between the lines of another.

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Lonetta Sue Scutt a good scrubbing and put her in a dress that managed to cover most of her tattoos.

Under his guidance she found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way.

Joanna left the garage a few minutes later, one of the jail trustees, armed with an upholstery shampooer, was already scrubbing away at the front seat.

I tossed his clothes into the silty water and gave them a quick scrubbing.

Cray suddenly felt dirty in his shirt and trews, his worn boots, and he wondered at the enormous effort of scrubbing and polishing that must be expended in the keeping of Ringforge.

There was also Father Varennes, the Verger, and far away in one of the small chapels opening from the apse in the eastern end good Mother Meraut was down upon her knees, not praying as you might suppose, but scrubbing the stone floor.

Buoyed up by the hope that it might be a parcel of scrubbing brushes and soap sent to me on the tide by a sympathetic creator, I set off towards it and realized on closer approach that it was something even better.

The interminable stripping off in draughty buildings and the washing of hands and chest in buckets of cold water, using scrubbing soap and often a piece of sacking for a towel.