Synonyms of the word

scrubbing

• v. present participle of scrub.
• n. An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed.

cleaning

• v. present participle of clean.
• n. (gerund of clean) A situation in which something is cleaned.
• n. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

cleansing

• adj. That cleanses.
• n. The process of removing dirt, toxins etc.
• v. present participle of cleanse.

cleanup

• n. The act of cleaning or tidying something.
• adv. (baseball) Fourth in the batting order.

scouring

• n. The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.
• n. (of livestock) Diarrhea.
• v. present participle of scour.

scrub

• adj. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
• n. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
• n. One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
• n. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
• n. (US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed,…
• n. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand;…
• n. One not on the first team of players, a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse…
• v. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious.
• v. (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
• v. (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with…
• v. (audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound,…
• v. (audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based…
• n. An instance of scrubbing.
• n. A cancellation.
• n. A worn-out brush.
• n. One who scrubs.
• n. (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
• n. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
• n. An exfoliant for the body.