The city scrubbed up nicely.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

So there's a character who is sort wild man, and he's taken in, and he's kind of cleaned up and scrubbed and given some new clothes.

NPR: Looking at the World Through Beer Glasses

At his computer, he pulled up a data set for me, scrubbed of identifying information, from a client that manages health-care benefits for some two hundred and fifty employers school districts, a large church association, a bus company, and the like.

NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

So he wrote this piece - and, by the way, if you try to look it up now, you can't because Obama and his team have scrubbed it from the internet, so you can't find it, but I want to share with you part of what he wrote.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Monica Crowley, Mightier Pen 2012

It was scrubbed with bleach, while furniture, crockery and bedding was removed and floorboards and carpets ripped up and replaced.

BBC: Glasgow & West Scotland