Clues for the word "SCRUB"
We've had 148 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 352 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on July 09, 2026.
Definition of 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.
- 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.
- n. - One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- n. - Something small and mean.
- n. - A worn-out brush.
- n. - A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
- 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.
- a. - Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
Referring Clues
- Second-stringer
- Third-stringer
- Do away with
- Cancel
- Prepare for surgery
- Do a pre-op chore
- Substitute
- Wash hard
- Bench sitter
- Clean with elbow grease
- Cancel, at Cape Canaveral
- Wash with elbow grease
- Cancel, slangily
- Clean with effort
- Benchwarmer
- Prepare for the OR
- Kind of nurse
- Sanitize with a brush
- Perform a preop procedure
- Hit the dirt?
- Call off
- Clean using elbow grease
- Clean diligently
- Do some cleansing
- Clean well
- Cancel, so to speak
- Scour thoroughly
- Cancel, à la Mission Control
- Use elbow grease
- Subject to friction
- Scour, as pots
- Wash very hard
- Cancel, as a mission
- Go without launch?
- Cancel, as a launch
- Terminate
- Scour
- Abort, as a mission
- Prepare for an operation
- Clean with a vengeance
- Abandon
- Cancel, as a rocket launch
- Prepare to operate
- Prep for surgery
- Stunted tree
- Wash before operating
- Clean thoroughly
- One seen during a blowout
- Wash thoroughly
- Nix
- Clean
- Wash the pots
- Use elbow grease on
- Rub clean
- Player way down the bench
- Attack baked-on grease, say
- Use a wire brush on
- Deep-clean
- Use a Brillo pad
- Abort a mission
- Call off, as a mission
- Use steel wool
- Use Comet on
- Cancel at NASA
- Wash vigorously
- Hit the dirt hard?
- Brush
- Clean with hard rubbing
- Clean, as dishes
- Cancel, as a space trip
- Use an S.O.S pad
- Clean vigorously
- Bench warmer
- Cancel, as a space mission
- Exfoliating lotion
- Clean very well
- Wash dishes, perhaps
- Bush
- Work hard to clean
- Rub vigorously
- Scour the pots
- Cancel, as a space flight
- Put some muscle into cleaning
- Wash
- Rub hard
- TLC: "A ___ is a guy that can't get no love"
- TLC won't hang w/one
- Cancel (informal)
- Area of dense stunted vegetation
- Clean by rubbing hard
- Brush dirt off - delete - stunted vegetation
- Remove with a slightly scratchy massaging action
- Scour the outback
- Clean vigorously - stunted vegetation
- Cancel the clean-up!
- Abandon meagre growth
- Get rid of undergrowth
- Brush - clean
- Clean thoroughly - cancel
- Brush and clean thoroughly
- Brushwood
- Rub hard - low vegetation
- Clean with a brush
- Clean - cancel
- Take out and clean
- Discontinue loan without credit
- Get rid of Bush!
- Cancel cleanup?
- Abandon brushwood
- What surgeons do with stunted growths
- Get ready for surgery
- Cancel a mission
- Tackle dirt
- Understand Polish or cancel
- Rub hard with brush
- Cancel clean-up
- Cancel credit invested in submarine
- Vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- Clean by rubbing really hard
- Abandon the B-team
- Abandon stunted vegetation
- Cancel the cleaning process
- Cancel subscription to protect creditor
- Cancel cleaning process
- Fourth-stringer
- Clean bush
- Wash with vigor
- Cancel, as a blast-off
- Cancel clean out
- Cancel a launch or clean floors
- Get clean away from the informal London prison!
- Exfoliating stuff
- Clean with S.O.S
- Arid area with bushes
- Thoroughly wash
- Somehow curbs the use of a brush
- Brush in more ways than one
- Skin exfoliant
- Clean with a wire brush
- Exfoliating product
- Take out of the game
- Second- or third-stringer
- No first-stringer
- Really clean
- Use a sponge
- Clean with steel wool
- Go after grime
- Use a loofah
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - July 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 06, 2026
- Daily Quick - June 25, 2026
- LA Times - June 14, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 01, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 08, 2026
- Daily American - April 05, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 16, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 15, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 24, 2026
- LA Times - January 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 23, 2025
- Daily American - December 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 21, 2025
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 17, 2025
- LA Times - September 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 26, 2025
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