Scrubland

Definition

scrub 1 /skrʌb/ v ( -bb- ) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (down/out) တိုက္ခြၽတ္ ေဆးေၾကာ သည္။ ေၾကးေညႇာ္တိုက္ခြၽတ္ ေရမိုးခ်ဳိးေပးသည္။ 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 ) တိုက္ခြၽတ္ေဆးသည္။ It took ages to scrub the paint off (the children's hands). ၂။ ( infml ) အစီအစဥ္ဖ်က္သိမ္းသည္။ We were going for a picnic, but we had to scrub it because of the rain. n [sing] တိုက္ခြၽတ္ျခင္း။ ပြတ္တိုက္ေဆးေၾကာျခင္း။ give the floor a good scrub. ❏ scrubbing-brush ( Us also scrub-brush ) n (ၾကမ္း တိုက္သည့္)ဝက္မွင္ဘီး။ ❍ BRUSH ❏ scrub up [ PHRV ] ( medical ) (ခြဲစိတ္ဆရာဝန္) ခြဲခန္းမဝင္မီ လက္ေဆးသည္။ scrub 2 /skrʌb/ n [U] (က) ခ်ံဳထေနာင္းေတာ။ The bird disappeared into the scrub. (ခ) (also scrubland /'skrʌblǝnd/) ခ်ံဳထေနာင္းေတာ။ ❏ scrubby /'skrʌbi/ adj (က) ခ်ံဳေစးထေနာင္းလႊမ္းေသာ။ a scrubby hillside. (ခ) ႀကံဳလီွေသာ(သစ္ပင္)။

Examples

1. She scrubbed the kitchen table clean.
2. [scrub at] : He stood there scrubbing at his shirt with the towel.
3. The Prime Minister scrubbed his long-planned trip to the Middle East.