Social life
Synonyms for scrub
The synonym for scrub recorded in this bank is scratch, in the sense "postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for scrub
- scratchverb, in the sense "postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day scrub is audited in a second meaning.
postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
We had to scrub our vacation plans.
The true synonym
scratch
Same sentence, swapped: We had to scratch our vacation plans.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- scour
- suspend
- reprieve
Where scrub turns up in the game
scrub is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play scrub
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scrub reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because social life is the company scrub keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scrub carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.