scrubbed

He stank of horses and left muddy boot prints on the floors that poor Svetlana had so recently scrubbed.

“I have been in the most malodorous surroundings imaginable and feel the need to be thoroughly scrubbed.”

Three candidates were scrubbed off the ballot paper on the grounds that they did not fulfil all the necessary conditions, the electoral body's chair, Jean-Pierre Ouaboue said.

The new curriculum is also taught in occupied parts of Ukraine, where authorities have seized and destroyed Ukrainian-language books, and residents say Ukraine’s national history is scrubbed from the timetable.

Steam that passes through the torus is scrubbed of most of its radioactive isotopes before it leaves the building, a vast improvement over allowing the steam to enter the environment without any intervention.