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scrubdown

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[skruhb-doun] / ˈskrʌbˌdaʊn /

noun

  1. an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object.

    The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.

Etymology

Origin of scrubdown

Noun use of verb phrase scrub down

Example Sentences

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But they had already been around with their Geiger counters, detected radioactivity at the motel and the drugstore that Johnny had visited, ordered a thorough scrubdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

A refrain among Kobe's survivors was how much they longed for a good, hot scrubdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old Senate Office Building gleamed after a scrubdown.

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The scrubdown in the tissue bank's underground operating room was even more thorough than is needed for live surgery, for contamination of tissue can make the bank's operations worse than useless.

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