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overscrub

overscrub verb: to scrub excessively.

Verb

overscrub (third-person singular simple present overscrubs, present participle overscrubbing, simple past and past participle overscrubbed)

  1. (transitive) To scrub excessively.

Forms of overscrub

third-person singular presentoverscrubs
present participleoverscrubbing
past participleoverscrubbed
pastoverscrubbed

Origin of overscrub

From over- + scrub.

Questions about overscrub

What does overscrub mean?
Overscrub means to scrub excessively.
What part of speech is overscrub?
Overscrub is a verb.
What is the past tense of overscrub?
The past tense of overscrub is overscrubbed.

Words near overscrub in the dictionary

  1. overscribbling
  2. overscroll
  3. overscrolled
  4. overscrolling
  5. overscrolls
  6. overscrub
  7. overscrubbed
  8. overscrubbing
  9. overscrubs
  10. overscrupulosity
  11. overscrupulous

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