• Its clothing is bleached, starched, and pressed, and its face is scrubbed clean.
• While she scrubbed him she would invariably speak to him of the importance of personal hygiene.
• We pack the clean eggs directly in cartons and scrub the soiled eggs under running water before packing them.

Synonyms

• If this means the profile's scrubbed, ‘he continues, ‘that's fine by me.’
• I just may have to scrub the whole thing and go back to version 1.
• If a child shows an aptitude and a burning desire to play the violin, the plan for her to train for World Cup soccer may have to be scrubbed,

Synonyms

• Once the gas is extracted, it is scrubbed to remove acids and dehumidified.
• To win, the system should be able to scrub the equivalent of at least a billion tons of the greenhouse gas a year.
• The gas is then scrubbed with a high-boiling organic solvent which is miscible with water and to which sulfur is added.

• I went off from the back of the pack, scrubbed the tyre in for three laps and pulled in to ensure I had maximum grip left for my important race.
• I ended up scrubbing the tyres in and the shaking problems I had disappeared.

• Usually at Cheltenham you're scrubbing the heads off your horses trying to get them closer.
• Now he was back-pedalling quickly and the jockey was hard at work on him, scrubbing him along frantically but getting no response.
• But you could see me scrubbing him the whole way in the Belmont, and not going anywhere.

• Performing a surgical hand scrub before a surgical procedure is intended to reduce the number of microorganisms.
• Study participants perform one surgical hand scrub on day one of the test week and are immediately gloved.
• By spending less than 1 – 2 minutes to give yourself a whole-body scrub from head to toe, you can boost the skin's resistance to outside temperature change.

• When using an alcohol-based surgical hand scrub with persistent activity, follow the manufacturer's instructions.
• Other joints give you long rather torturous salt and lemon exfoliating body scrubs first and then apply the stuff.
• And my apricot exfoliating facial scrub sits above the sink next to my Morning Fresh dishwashing detergent.

• He was wearing green scrubs and looked like a surgeon coming down the hall.
• Soon, we were joined by a doctor wearing green scrubs.
• Dull paint job, old marble floors and the staff are actually wearing cheesy looking hospital scrubs.

• Images of barren trees, dry scrub and leaf-scattered ground present the rural Virginia landscape in December.
• The Kalahari is a green desert, largely of low thorn scrub and acacia trees.
• Reestablishment of scrub vegetation on phosphate mines has been attempted with varying success.

• Invasive plants including grasses, scrub guava trees and sugar cane stretched from one end of the property to the other, and the fertility of the fragile tropical soils had long been depleted.
• In rural southwest Georgia, Highway 137 heads out of tiny Buena Vista, past neatly kept lawns, then through patches of kudzu and stands of scrub pine.
• They prefer grasslands, chaparral, and scrub oak areas to forage for food.

• Any poor scrubs in our place must be fools not to think the match a very rare and astonishing honour, as far as the position goes.

• Fact is, probably you and I would have had a great summer playing scrub in Dallas together when we were kids.
• ‘The kids in the neighborhood would play on a vacant corner lot, choosing up sides and playing scrub,’ she told me.
• This continued for almost a month until it warmed up and we began playing scrub.