English > rub: 5 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | Move over something with pressure. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
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| Model | They rub the cake with sugar; They rub sugar over the cake |
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| Examples | - "rub my hands"
- "rub oil into her skin"
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| Entails | touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with |
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| Entailed by | erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off | Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing |
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| file | Smooth with a file |
| gloss | Give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing |
| grate, grind | make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together |
| massage, rub down, knead | manually manipulate (someone's body) , usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes |
| polish, smooth, smoothen, shine | make (a surface) shine |
| rasp | scrape with a rasp |
| smooth, smoothen | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing |
| Narrower | brush | rub with a brush, or as if with a brush |
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| gauge | rub to a uniform size |
| grate | Reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing / rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface |
| pumice | rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen / smoothen |
| puree, strain | rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender |
| rosin | rub rosin onto |
| scour, abrade | rub hard or scrub |
| scrape, grate | scratch repeatedly |
| scrub, scour | clean with hard rubbing |
| smear, blur, smudge, smutch | make a smudge on |
| sponge down, sponge off | clean with a sponge, by rubbing |
| wipe, pass over | rub with a circular motion |
| worry | touch or rub constantly |
| Broader | guide, run, draw, pass | pass over, across, or through |
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| See also | rub down, rub off | wear away |
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| rub down | manually manipulate (someone's body) , usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes |
| rub out | remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing |
| Spanish | acariciar, friccionar, frotarse, frotar, restregarse, restregar |
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| Catalan | fregar-se, fregar, refregar-se, refregar |
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| Nouns | rub | the act of rubbing or wiping |
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| rubbing | effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure |
