Search for crossword answers and clues
Cursed roughly about books being abandoned
Answer for the clue "Cursed roughly about books being abandoned ", 8 letters:
scrubbed
Alternative clues for the word scrubbed
Word definitions for scrubbed in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrubbed (skr[u^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrubbing .] [OE. scrobben, probably of Dutch or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skrubbe, Sw. skrubba, D. schrobben, LG. schrubben.] To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of domestic animals) not selectively bred [also: scrubbing , scrubbed ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context surgery not comparable English) With hands washed according to operating room protocol and wearing sterile gown and sterile gloves. 2 Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby. v (en-past of: scrub )
Usage examples of scrubbed.
Even New York City looked good in the cool crisp air scrubbed clean from a day of rain.
Any Wendish city of such remarkable size would have stunk like an open sewer, but as the sailors slipped their oars and threw ropes to the waiting dockside laborers, who hauled them in against the pilings, Zacharias saw nothing but clean-swept streets beneath walls covered with the white flowers of the jessamine vine or gleaming as if they had been scrubbed and rinsed that morning.
From there he dropped to land lightly on his hard bare feet, flexing his knees to absorb the impact on the scrubbed white planks.
Then he scrubbed his body with handfuls of wet sand until his skin tingled.
He seized the washcloth from its hook and soaked it in the pink water, then scrubbed at his arms and the front of his breeches.
His clothing looked and smelled fresh, his bony hands were scrubbed pink.
She scrubbed herself all over again, hair to toenails, then did another mudrub to get rid of the soap stink.
This was the sort of place where her sort of individual tended to vanish without a trace, all those traces scrubbed away by official flunkies kept around for sponging the mud off the official image.
They scrubbed me and buffed me and bleached me until the tan and calluses were gone.
She scrubbed them from her cheeks and thumped the pillow into a different shape.
More time passed blissfully in the warm pool then she was hauled out for her hair to be rinsed and scrubbed a final time.
He thought about what it would be like to work in a scrubbed little rural hospital with no crushes of people and no pickpocket warnings.
He doubted that there was a single scrubbed little rural hospital this side of Bora Bora that would take him, should he be removed from the MMC staff.
The country air wafting through the open passenger-side door was scrubbed and sweet.
Teekleman is well scrubbed and wears clean though not expensive linen.