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rub1 /rub/ transitive verb (rubbˈing; rubbed)- To apply friction to
- To move something with pressure along the surface of
- To move with pressure along the surface of something
- To clean, polish or smooth by friction
- To remove, erase or obliterate by friction (usu with away, off or out)
- To grind, sharpen, chafe or treat by friction
- To cause to pass by friction (with in, through, etc)
- To impede (Shakespeare)
- To irritate, fret
- To take a rubbing of
intransitive verb- To apply, or move with, friction
- To meet an impediment (esp in bowls)
- To chafe
- To grate
- To fret
- To make shift, to get along somehow
- To be able to be rubbed
noun- Process or act of rubbing
- An impediment, or a meeting with an impediment (bowls)
- An inequality or uneven place
- A difficulty
- A hitch
- An irritating experience
ORIGIN: Cf LGer rubben rubbˈing noun - Application of friction
- Experience of rubs (Shakespeare)
- An impression of an inscribed surface produced by rubbing heelball or plumbago upon paper laid over it
rubbing alcohol noun Denatured ethyl alcohol used as an antiseptic or in massage rubbing post noun One for cattle to rub against rubbing stone noun A stone for smoothing rubˈdown noun An act or experience of rubbing down rubˈout noun - An act of rubbing out
- A murder (slang)
rubˈstone noun A whetstone rub along (informal) - To get along, to manage somehow
- To be on more or less friendly terms (with)
rub down - To rub from head to foot
- To remove (a surface) by rubbing in order to repaint, etc
- To search by passing the hands over the body
rub in - To force into the pores by friction
- To mix (fat) into flour by rubbing together with the fingertips (cookery)
- To be unpleasantly insistent in emphasizing
rub off on (to) (figurative) To pass to (another person or thing) by close contact, association, etc rub of (or on) the green Chance events over which one has no control (orig an outside interference with the ball in golf) rub one's hands To rub one's palms together, esp as a sign of satisfaction rub out - To erase
- To murder (slang)
rub shoulders or (US) elbows To come into social contact (with) rub someone's nose in it (informal) To remind someone insistently of a mistake, fault, misdeed, etc rub (or rub up) the wrong way To irritate by tactless handling rub up - To polish
- To freshen one's memory of
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