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Synonyms for rub
rʌbrub
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Princeton's WordNet
hang-up, hitch, rub, snagnoun
an unforeseen obstacle
Synonyms:
rent, split, enlistment, preventative, term of enlistment, duty tour, stay, preventive, tear, wipe, limp, hitch, tour, interference, stoppage, check, tour of duty, hinderance, incumbrance, hobble, snag, halt, encumbrance, hang-up, hindrance, rip, stop, arrestrub, wipeverb
the act of rubbing or wiping
"he gave the hood a quick rub"
rubverb
move over something with pressure
"rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin"
rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratchverb
cause friction
"my sweater scratches"
Synonyms:
fuss, eat into, itch, excise, gag, choke, scratch up, nark, erode, fret, excoriate, bother, rile, scrub, gravel, strike, inscribe, rankle, get to, eat away, come up, scrape up, scrape, cancel, nettle, gall, call off, chafe, get at, engrave, scratch, irritate, annoy, frazzle, niggle, rag, expunge, vex, grate, fray, devil, graverub, scratch, itchverb
scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
"Don't scratch your insect bites!"
Synonyms:
itch, call off, scrape up, expunge, spoil, fret, grave, strike, chafe, come up, scratch, cancel, inscribe, engrave, scrub, scrape, fray, excise, scratch up
Editors Contribution
massage
rub in a manner to bring relief to muscles.
the woman at the gym gives a wonderful massage.
Submitted by JP03 on June 11, 2015
Dictionary of English Synonymes
rubverb
rubverb
rubverb
rubnoun
Synonyms:
obstacle, difficulty, embarrassment, perplexity, dilemma, nonplus, poser, quandary, puzzle, knotty point, nice point
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Rub":
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
rub
Synonyms:
See Friction rub
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#1001 | stay | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1080 | tour | |
#1637 | rent | |
#3439 | cancel | |
#3684 | split | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4035 | massage | |
#4639 | bmw | |
#5117 | devil | |
#7432 | rip | |
#7523 | arrest | |
#7665 | scratch | |
#8065 | grave | |
#8714 | interference | |
#9356 | tear | |
#9936 | bother | |
#11695 | preventive | |
#12429 | gag | |
#12745 | rub | |
#13072 | gravel | |
#13959 | halt | |
#14260 | wipe | |
#14594 | hitch | |
#15810 | rag | |
#15888 | scrub | |
#15920 | limp | |
#17290 | excise | |
#20785 | annoy | |
#20976 | fuss | |
#21204 | choke | |
#21252 | gall | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#23847 | preventative | |
#26507 | itch | |
#27090 | fret | |
#27707 | fray | |
#30495 | erode | |
#32424 | scrape | |
#33184 | grate | |
#33918 | snag | |
#42240 | nettle | |
#43221 | enlistment | |
#44966 | hindrance | |
#47688 | irritate | |
#48365 | stoppage | |
#54523 | vex | |
#56554 | encumbrance | |
#59798 | engrave | |
#88074 | expunge | |
#90291 | chafe | |
#99268 | hobble | |
#105759 | inscribe | |
#127183 | rile | |
#167642 | niggle | |
#204694 | hinderance | |
#224515 | frazzle | |
#231498 | nark | |
#249874 | rankle | |
#296996 | excoriate |
How to use rub in a sentence?
It's an old water system that many perceive isn't set up to deal with current climatic and hydraulic conditions, it's just not really set up to deal with climate change and the changing needs for water both from an environmental standpoint, and then there's also the rub between agriculture and municipal.
Basil has anti-inflammatory properties, so if my kids have bites I just take the leaf, crinkle it and rub it on the skin.
I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments.
Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will “rub off” on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.
President Donald Trump is very bright, but President Donald Trump doesn't read a lot, and buys into a lot of conspiracy theories, some of those theories could be correct, and he wants to find out what really happened in 2016. I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that. Is that in the national interest, or is it purely political ? That's the rub. It'll be difficult for The Democrats to separate those two.
Translations for rub
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- حكArabic
- fregarCatalan, Valencian
- třít, mnoutCzech
- gnide, skaveDanish
- einreiben, abreiben, aufpolieren, polieren, sich abscheuern, reiben, putzen, sich ablaufen, sich abreibenGerman
- τρίψιμο, τρίβωGreek
- frotiEsperanto
- frotarSpanish
- hinkata, hieroa, hangata, hankausFinnish
- frotter, frictionFrench
- cuimilIrish
- slìogScottish Gaelic
- fregarGalician
- dörzsölHungarian
- շփելArmenian
- fregare, strofinare, strofinamentoItalian
- 擦るJapanese
- 비비다Korean
- frico, tergeoLatin
- reiwenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ສີLao
- trintiLithuanian
- trītLatvian
- għorokMaltese
- ပွတ်Burmese
- wrijvenDutch
- fretar, fregarOccitan
- fricção, friccionar, esfregarPortuguese
- sgrattarRomansh
- frecaRomanian
- тереть, потеретьRussian
- friài, fricare, friare, frigareSardinian
- trljati, tare, ribati, trti, očešatiSerbo-Croatian
- tretiSlovene
- fërkojAlbanian
- stryka, gnida, gnugga, skavaSwedish
- రుద్దుTelugu
- sürtmek, ovmak, ovma, dokundurmak, ovalamak, ovalamaTurkish
- twitwiTwi
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