scrubbing
擦洗,刷洗,洗刷,洗涤
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scrubbed, scrub·bing.
- : to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- : to subject to friction; rub.
- : to remove from something by hard rubbing while washing.
- : Chemistry. to remove from a gas by chemical means, as sulfur dioxide from smokestack gas or carbon dioxide from exhaled air in life-support packs.
- : to cancel or postpone: Ground control scrubbed the spacewalk.
- : Slang. to do away with; cancel: Scrub your vacation plans—there's work to do!
- : Computers. to perform routine maintenance on in memory or storage with scans that detect and correct data corruption: The system is automated to scrub and archive all active records in the database.to permanently erase, usually by writing over space where data had been stored and was later deleted, so that deleted data cannot be recovered: Scrub your computer’s hard drive before you sell or donate it.to delete so as to erase it from public record or social media: The marketing team scrubbed the disgraced celebrity spokesperson from their website within hours of the scandal.Before applying for jobs, I scrubbed a bunch of posts from my hard-partying past.
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The first time you clean and wax your chain, make sure to thoroughly wash and scrub your bike’s drivetrain.
You might need to scrub a little with a sponge or rag, but the buildup should be loose and the stains should come out easily.
“Cleaning out a closet or scrubbing a floor, you know, the gratification is immediate, which is I think is what I need right now,” says Shaffer.
To use it, just run warm water onto your cast iron, and scrub—no soap needed.
The company's first attempt on September 28 was scrubbed due to thick clouds over the launch site at Kennedy Space Center.
She works as a maid, scrubbing floors and toilets of the well-to-do families in West Hartford, Connecticut.
First-generation girls were scrubbing floors and helping out.
Carbon utilization can offset or even exceed, the additional cost of carbon scrubbing.
Apart from slapping him and brutally scrubbing his body in the bath, she barely touched him.
Van Dien remembers the 14-hour day he spent scrubbing, with buff extras doing push-ups between takes.
Almost before I had completed the twofold process of shifting and scrubbing, the cloth was laid.
The stain can be removed by vigorous scrubbing with soap, or it will wear off gradually in a few days.