scrubbing

«scrubbing» in Mova's school dictionary: cleaning something by rubbing it hard, usually with a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (-ing form of scrub: scrub, scrubs, scrubbed, scrubbing); noun (scrubbing, a scrubbing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Scrubbing is cleaning something by rubbing it hard, usually with a brush and soap or water. tree →

2) A scrubbing is one act of cleaning in this way: «The bath needs a good scrubbing.» tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life chores include scrubbing floors, pots and the bath; in hygiene lessons, scrubbing hands for at least 20 seconds removes germs. Phrases: «scrubbing brush», «a good scrubbing», «keep scrubbing».

examples

• Keep scrubbing your hands for twenty seconds. tree →
• Mum was scrubbing the kitchen floor. tree →
• The bath needs a good scrubbing. tree →
• I'm scrubbing the mud off my shoes. tree →
• Use the scrubbing brush on the grill. tree →
• Scrubbing your teeth too hard can hurt your gums; brush gently. tree →
• On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. tree →

note

«Scrub» + «-ing» with a double b. In the UK «scrubbing brush», in the USA «scrub brush». A hand-washing rule: scrub all parts — palms, backs, between fingers, nails.

In the corpora

• Teeth are brushed gently in small circles with a soft brush, because hard scrubbing hurts the gums and wears the teeth.
• Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubbing clothes, wringing them out, beating carpets and pressing creases.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scrubbing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.