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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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scrub

/skrʌb/

US pronunciation
American sound/skrʌb/
scrub
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short u vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> scrub

Myanmar meaning

(n) (က) ချုံထနောင်းတော။ (ခ) ချုံထနောင်းတော။ (က) ချုံစေးထနောင်းလွှမ်းသော။ (ခ) ကြုံလှီသောသစ်ပင်။

Full entry

scrub1 /skrʌb/ v (-bb- )

၁။ (က) ~ sth (down/out) တိုက်ချွတ် ဆေးကြော သည်။ ကြေးညှော်တိုက်ချွတ် ရေမိုးချိုးပေးသည်။ scrub the floor ❍ little boys with freshly scrubbed necks ❍ He was down on his knees, scrubbing (away). ❍ Scrub the doors down before painting them. ❍ scrub out a saucepan ❍ The walls were now scrubbed clean of graffiti. (ခ) ~ sth off (sth ) တိုက်ချွတ်ဆေးသည်။ It took ages to scrub the paint off (the children's hands).
၂။ (infml ) အစီအစဉ်ဖျက်သိမ်းသည်။ We were going for a picnic, but we had to scrub it because of the rain.
n [sing] တိုက်ချွတ်ခြင်း။ ပွတ်တိုက်ဆေးကြောခြင်း။ give the floor a good scrub.
❏ scrubbing-brush (Us also scrub-brush ) n (ကြမ်း တိုက်သည့်)ဝက်မှင်ဘီး။ ❍ BRUSH
❏ scrub up [PHRV ] (medical )
(ခွဲစိတ်ဆရာဝန်) ခွဲခန်းမဝင်မီ လက်ဆေးသည်။

scrub2 /skrʌb/ n [U]

(က) ချုံထနောင်းတော။ The bird disappeared into the scrub.
(ခ) (also scrubland /'skrʌblǝnd/) ချုံထနောင်းတော။
❏ scrubby /'skrʌbi/ adj
(က) ချုံစေးထနောင်းလွှမ်းသော။ a scrubby hillside.
(ခ) ကြုံလှီသော(သစ်ပင်)။

More examples
  • She scrubbed the kitchen table clean.
  • [scrub at] : He stood there scrubbing at his shirt with the towel.
  • The Prime Minister scrubbed his long-planned trip to the Middle East.
Synonyms
rub, scour, wash, clean, polish, brush, cleanse, abandon, abolish, abort, abrade, brushwood, buff, burnish, bush, call off, cancel, chunky, delete, discontinue, do away with, drop, dwarfish, erase, forget about, give up, half-pint, miter, mop, peewee, pint-sized, postpone, runted, runtish, runty, scratch, scrubber, scrubland, shrimp, shrimper, small fry, stunted, thick-bodied, thicket, undergrown, undergrowth, vegetation, yea big, yea high
Antonyms
continue, dirty, organize, pursue, schedule, set up, support, uphold
Cross references
rubscourwashcleanpolishbrushcleanseabandonabolishabortabradebrushwoodbuffburnishbushcall offcancelchunkydeletediscontinuedo away withdropdwarfisheraseforget aboutgive uphalf-pintmiter
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