Como dizer "Arear (limpar)" em inglês

Arear - To scour with sand.

"You could scour with sand, using a brush or a cloth, and it must have been hard work."
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Usávamos esse termo (arear panelas) quando criança, no sítio.

Olha, eu acho que não existe um verbo em inglês que tenha o mesmo signficado de "arear", eu acho que você pode usar o verbo "to clean" mesmo para isso ou o verbo "to scrub" que significa esfregar. Mas vamos esperar as outras respostas.

I think the "shine" stuff depends on the context. In rural areas and in the old days I lived in places where people cooked with wood, so pots would get some soot stuck on them, as when campers cook with coals to this day.
They would scour their aluminum pots with a combo of sand and soap to clean away the soot that stuck, "arear" the verb comes from the fact of using sand in the process.
Today there are (mild abrasive) scouring powders that you can use along with soap to that end, now there are some scouring powders that are soapy.

So, remove grease and stains from surfaces, leaving them clean would be a kind of "arear" (in the end a pan may shine or not), "clean away dirt" (or soot)/a coat of soot) stuck on (aluminum) pots and pan - would be the second meaning. They could be still with a blackened appearance (com tisna) at the end, but the soot wouldn't stIck on your hand.

Scouring powder - saponáceo em pó.

Eu diria “to shine” a pan. Colocando “shine a pan” no google é exatamente o “arear” que aparecem nas imagens.