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bescrub

bescrub verb: to scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.

Verb

bescrub (third-person singular simple present bescrubs, present participle bescrubbing, simple past and past participle bescrubbed)

  1. (transitive) To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.
    • To Renegados foul, who thus distort "Whate'er is lovely and of good report, Dashing loud libels at a College head, Filling the Cranium with suspicious dread, That whole of merits, Learning's highest claims, Soar not above the Groom's bescrubbing aims.1812, Edward Michael Ward, Oxoniana
    • During the intermission an engaging nursery infant, bescrubbed and becurled, clad in "rompers" and wearing a wondering expression, had been steered gently about among the audience, holding out a porringer, into which contributions were liberally poured.1918, Mary Aldis, Drift - Page 287

Forms of bescrub

third-person singular presentbescrubs
present participlebescrubbing
past participlebescrubbed
pastbescrubbed

Origin of bescrub

From be- (“about, completely, all over”) + scrub.

Questions about bescrub

What does bescrub mean?
Bescrub means to scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.
What part of speech is bescrub?
Bescrub is a verb.
What is the past tense of bescrub?
The past tense of bescrub is bescrubbed.

Words near bescrub in the dictionary

  1. bescreens
  2. bescribble
  3. bescribbled
  4. bescribbles
  5. bescribbling
  6. bescrub
  7. bescumber
  8. bescumbered
  9. bescumbering
  10. bescumbers
  11. beseat

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