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scrubbed down

scrubbed down is the simple past and past participle of scrub down.

Meaning of scrub down

Verb

scrub down (third-person singular simple present scrubs down, present participle scrubbing down, simple past and past participle scrubbed down)

  1. (transitive) To clean through a scrubbing action; to thoroughly clean up by scrubbing.
    • The maid scrubbed down the floor.
    Synonyms:
    scrub, scrub up
  2. (figuratively, intransitive, transitive) To reduce a budget, especially by removing inefficiencies and redundant spending; to lower spending to the minimum necessary.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To improve the public image or apparent value of something.
    • The brand is viewed poorly, but we have a plan to scrub it down.

Questions about scrubbed down

What is scrubbed down the simple past and past participle of?
Scrubbed down is the simple past and past participle of scrub down.

Words near scrubbed down in the dictionary

  1. scrub wren
  2. scrub wrens
  3. scrubbability
  4. scrubbable
  5. scrubbed
  6. scrubbed down
  7. scrubbed in
  8. scrubbed out
  9. scrubbed up
  10. scrubber
  11. scrubbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrubbed down (page history and authors); scrub down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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