Crossword-Solution: SCRUB 5 letters, 196 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Scrub	v. t.	To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
Scrub	v. i.	To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
Scrub	n.	One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
Scrub	n.	Something small and mean.
Scrub	n.	A worn-out brush.
Scrub	n.	A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
Scrub	n.	One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc.
Scrub	a.	Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SCRUB	anagram	CURBS

We have 196 clues for the answer “SCRUB”

Clue	Answers
*In basketball: Player who rarely makes a splash	1 answer
Abort a mission	1 answer
Abort, as a mission	1 answer
An impromptu team.	1 answer
Area covered with low trees or shrubs.	1 answer
Attack baked-on grease, say	1 answer
Benchwarmer, often	1 answer
Brush clean	1 answer
Cancel, la Mission Control	1 answer
Cancel, as a SpaceX mission	1 answer
Cancel, as a blast-off	1 answer
Cancel, as a space launch.	1 answer
Cancel, as a space mission	1 answer
Cancel, as a space trip	1 answer
Cancel, slangily	1 answer
Cancel, so to speak	1 answer
Clean (cancel)	1 answer
Clean diligently	1 answer
Clean floors	1 answer
Clean using elbow grease	1 answer
Clean very well	1 answer
Clean with S.O.S	1 answer
Clean with a vengeance	1 answer
Clean with a wire brush	1 answer
Clean, as a dirty pan	1 answer
Clean, as dishes	1 answer
Deep-clean	1 answer
Do a pre-op chore	1 answer
Do brush work	1 answer
Do some cleansing	1 answer
Dwarf tree area.	1 answer
Exfoliating lotion	1 answer
Exfoliating product	1 answer
Fourth-stringer	1 answer
Full-body treatment at a Korean spa	1 answer
Get a deep clean	1 answer
Get rid of stunted vegetation	1 answer
Get superclean	1 answer
Give a good cleaning	1 answer
Go after grime	1 answer
Go without launch?	1 answer
Guy who might holler at you from the passenger side of his best friend's ride (according to TLC)	1 answer
Hit the dirt hard?	1 answer
Impromptu, as a game.	1 answer
Clean vigorously with a brush	1 answer
Kind of nurse	1 answer
Kind of pine or oak	1 answer
Kind of team or brush	1 answer
Low trees	1 answer
No first-stringer	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AERET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SCRUB (5)

When you go out of the house into the flower garden, there you feel again the order and fine arrangement manifest all over the great farm; in the fencing and hedging, in the windbreaks and sheds, in the symmetrical pasture ponds, planted with scrub willows to give shade to the cattle in fly-time.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Kronborg told him cheerfully, across the fence, that she would “take him up on it,” and Ray hurried back to the yards to scrub out his car.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Darkness was just falling as we came in sight of the seemingly impregnable walls of this mountain stronghold, and lest we be seen I drew back with Woola behind a jutting granite promontory, into a clump of the hardy, purple scrub that thrives upon the barren sides of Otz.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Even the most hardened little orphan felt sympathy for an erring sister who was summoned to the office to face an annoyed matron; and Tommy liked Jerusha even if she did sometimes jerk him by the arm and nearly scrub his nose off.

Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 2008

When she had made her way through the brush and scrub cottonwood-trees that lined the opposite bank, she found herself upon the border of a field where the white, bursting cotton, with the dew upon it, gleamed for acres and acres like frosted silver in the early dawn.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994

Quotes with SCRUB (3)

Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit. It? I ast. Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It. But what do it look like? I ast. Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't …

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Scrub your brain of any thoughts that don’t serve you, and to fill your mind with fresh, clean thinking that instills confidence, commitment, and ultimate success.

Toni Sorenson The Great Brain Cleanse

He had no money or influence here. The clothes on his back were ragged, his moccasins were worn, and he was skeletally thin from lack of food and walking. But he would sail on a ship bound for England even if he had to scrub the decks to pay his way. He was Reynaud St. Aubyn, the Viscount of Hope, and by God or the devil, he was going home.

Elizabeth Hoyt To Desire a Devil

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 247 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).