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Answer : SCOUR
scrub, scour – v
clean with hard rubbing; “She scrubbed his back”
SYNONYMS
abrade, brush, buff, burnish, cleanse, flush, furbish, mop, pumice, purge, rub, sand
IN A SENTENCE
You’ll have to scour out those old cooking potsbefore you use them.
We scoured the pots and pans with pads of steel wool.
ETYMOLOGY
c. 1200, scouren, “cleanse by hard rubbing,” probably via Middle Dutch scuren, schuren “to polish, to clean,” and from Old French escurer, both from Late Latin excurare (Medieval Latin scurare) “clean off,” literally “take good care of,” from Latin ex “out,” or here perhaps intensive (see ex-), + curare “care for, take care of” (see cure (v.)). OED suggests it entered the language as a technical term among Flemish workmen in England. From 1580s as “to wash vigorously.” Related: Scoured; scouring. As a noun, 1610s, from the verb.
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