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HUBLOT Posted 11 years ago
: to wash your hands and arms thoroughly
- The doctor scrubbed up for surgery.
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Do you say "scrub in" to mean "scrub up"?
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"scrub in" / "scrub up"
scrub up
[phrasal verb]: to wash your hands and arms thoroughly
- The doctor scrubbed up for surgery.
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Do you say "scrub in" to mean "scrub up"?
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HUBLOT Do you say "scrub in" to mean "scrub up"? I think "scrubbed his hands" is somewhat equivalent to "scrubbed up " there .
- HUBLOT Do you say "scrub in" to mean "scrub up"?
- I think "scrubbed his hands" is somewhat equivalent to "scrubbed up " there .
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HUBLOTDo you say "scrub in" to mean "scrub up"?I think "scrubbed his hands" is somewhat equivalent to "scrubbed up" there.
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Collins Advanced Learners Dictionary
If you scrub something, you rub it hard in order to clean it, using a stiff brush and water.
Surgeons began to scrub their hands and arms with soap and water before operating...
If you scrub something, you rub it hard in order to clean it, using a stiff brush and water.
Surgeons began to scrub their hands and arms with soap and water before operating...
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HUBLOTDo you say "scrub in" to mean "scrub up"?No, but doctors use "scrub in" to mean "scrub up in preparation for doing surgery". Scrubbing your hands and arms is the prerequisite for entering an operating room (going in), just as typing your ID and password is the prerequisite for entering a computer system (going in).
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Collins Advanced Learners Dictionary
If you scrub something, you rub it hard in order to clean it, using a stiff brush and water.
Surgeons began to scrub their hands and arms with soap and water before operating..
According to the above BrE dictionary, it would appear that 'scrub' has the same meaning as 'scrub in'? Is this a British and American English
If you scrub something, you rub it hard in order to clean it, using a stiff brush and water.
Surgeons began to scrub their hands and arms with soap and water before operating..
According to the above BrE dictionary, it would appear that 'scrub' has the same meaning as 'scrub in'? Is this a British and American English
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tamguatlay it would appear that 'scrub' has the same meaning as 'scrub in'No.
Surgeons scrub their hands. There is a direct object.
*Surgeons scrub in their hands. Wrong. You can't have a direct object with scrub in.
Before they operate, surgeons scrub in. Correct. scrub
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