scrub up

1. 1.

   wash thoroughly

   “surgeons must scrub prior to an operation”

   Synonymsscrub

   Broaderwash

Questions about scrub up

What does scrub up mean?

scrub up means "wash thoroughly".

What is another word for scrub up?

Close synonyms include scrub. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scrub up a common word?

scrub up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.