SCRUB UP Synonyms

• clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

• purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins

• a man participant in his own marriage ceremony

• someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

• a man who has recently been married

• educate for a future role or function

• give a neat appearance to

• care for one's external appearance

• the froth produced by soaps or detergents

• agitation resulting from active worry

• a workman who puts up laths

• the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse)

• beat severely with a whip or rod

• form a lather

• exude sweat or lather

• rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning

• a thin coat of water-base paint

• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• clean with some chemical process

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• move by or as if by water

• be capable of being washed

• admit to testing or proof

• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

• form by erosion

• make moist

• wash or flow against

• wash by removing particles

• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

• put (things or places) in order

• dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

• the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

• (of domestic animals) not selectively bred

• clean with hard rubbing

• wash thoroughly

• postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled