Rub

Definition: Rub

Rub

Noun

1. An unforeseen obstacle.

2. The act of rubbing or wiping; "he gave the hood a quick rub".

Verb

1. Move over something with pressure; "rub my back"; "rub oil into her skin".

2. Cause friction; "my sweater scratches".

3. Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rub" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Industry

Literature

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Synonyms: Rub

Adversity

Mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset, comedown, setback.

Difficulty

Nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble.

Friction

Noun: friction, attrition; rubbing, abrasion, scraping. Verb: confrication, detrition, contrition, affriction, abrasion, arrosion, limature, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness .

Pain

Mishap, misfortune; (adversity); desagrement, esclandre, rub.

Crosswords: Rub

Czech (back, reverse, reverse side, tails, verso), Manx (rub ), Portuguese (new rouble, Russian rouble), Scottish (caught, rub), Serbo-Croatian (border, brim, brink, cant, edge, hem, lip, rand, selvage, selvedge, shoulder, verge).

I could scratch your ear. I could rub your tummy (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

This diaper's making my nuts rub together (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers)

It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

If I could just go back if I could rub everything out starting with myself (The Talented Mr. Ripley; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

Let me rub it off on your sweaters (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'll rub your back and fulfill your needs, yeah (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

But all she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt (I Can't Dance; performing artist: Genesis)

You Have To Rub It (In the Closet; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson and Teddy Riley)

Rub down every strand of hair on my chest (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together. (references; author: unknown)

Rub It In (1970)

Deep Rub (1979)

Rub You The Right Way (performing artist: Johnny Gill)

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Books

• The Rub and Read Book (Between the Lions) (reference)

• The Rub of the Green (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Rub it Better [CUTOUT] (reference)

• There's the Rub (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Delta 42-123 2-3/16" Diameter Rub Bearing for Shaper Cutters (reference)

• Jesada RUB-032 Rub Collar, 1-1/4" Bore (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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"You can do a favor for me - rub out any gun control legislation" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

"We rub these sticks together till we strike a spark ... we keep rubbing these sticks together ... we take these sticks ..." / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Maoiris of New Zealand rub noses, Mrs. Roosevelt breaks conventions ... so this happened when she greeted her Maori guide. Credit: Library of Congress.

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She let them take off her shoes and rub her feet

Ay! there was the rub.

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Health

Many scientists believe these headaches result from leakage of the cerebrospinal fluid that flows through pain-sensitive membranes around the brain and down to the spinal cord. The fluid, they suggest, drains through the tiny hole created by the spinal tap needle, causing the membranes to rub painfully against the bony skull. (references)

Several types of oral mucosal lesions are caused by overgrowth and infection by Candida species, including pseudomembranous candidiasis (removable white plaques), chronic hyperplastic candidiasis (leukoplakia-like white plaques that do not rub off), chronic erythematous candidiasis (patchy or diffuse mucosal erythema), and angular cheilitis. (references)

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Expressions using "rub": don't rub it in! ♦ i manage to rub on ♦ rub a dub ♦ rub against ♦ rub along ♦ rub away ♦ rub away corners ♦ rub clean ♦ rub down ♦ rub dry ♦ rub in ♦ rub iron ♦ rub of the green ♦ rub off ♦ rub off corners ♦ rub ointment into ♦ rub on ♦ rub on the raw ♦ rub one's coat ♦ rub one's eyes ♦ rub one's hand ♦ rub one's hands ♦ rub oneself ♦ rub out ♦ rub over ♦ rub shoulder ♦ rub shoulders with ♦ rub shoulders with all sorts of people ♦ rub smb. up the right way ♦ rub smb. up the wrong way ♦ rub sore ♦ rub stone ♦ rub through ♦ rub up ♦ rub up against ♦ rub with emery ♦ rub with ointment ♦ the horse was given a good rub ♦ there's the rub ♦ To rub along ♦ To rub down ♦ To rub off ♦ To rub out ♦ to rub out a drawing ♦ To rub up ♦ transit rub. Additional references.

Beginning with "rub": rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub-dub, rub-down, rub-in, rub-off, rub-over, rub-rubbing, rub-stone, rub-up-a-gal, rub-your-face-in-it.

Ending with "rub": belly-rub, body-rub, Dry-rub, no-rub.

Afrikaans

vryf. (various references)

Albanian

vend i fërkuar, vështirësi (difficulty, embarrassment, hardness, hitch, hurdle, knot, quandary, scrape), prek (adjoin, affect, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, touch, touch on, touch upon), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), ngacmim (banter, bothering, chaff, dig, excitation, excitement, harassment, impulse, irritation, jesting, molestation, nagging, provocation, raillery, rally, teasing), fshirje (defacement, deletion, effacement, erasure, obliteration, sweeping, wiping), fshij (brush, brush away, cancel, clean off, clean up, deface, delete, efface, erase, mop up, obliterate, rase, raze, remove, rub out, scratch out, strike off, sweep, wipe, wipe away, wipe off), fërkoj (burnish, caress, massage, pet, rasp, rub down, shine), fërkim (caress, embrocation, fondling, friction, massage, rubbing, scouring, traction, unction). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سخرية (burlesque, derision, fling, gibe, humor, humour, irony, jeer, lampoon, laughter, mockery, persiflage, quip, ridicule, sarcasm, scoff, scorn, shy, snap, sneer, spoof, taunt, tee-hee, tehee, twit, wit), ‏أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, eviscerate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, rest, retrench, rid, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away), ‏أسخط (enrage, exasperate, incense, irritate), ‏إحتك (jostle), ‏إحتكاك (attrition, contact, drag, friction, rubbing), ‏إنمحى (erase, trail), ‏دعك (muss, stump), ‏عدم إستواء, ‏فرك (chafe, rubbing, scour, scrape, scrub, stone), ‏تمسيد (massage, rubbing, stroke), ‏حك (abrade, abrasion, friction, itch, paw, polish, rasp, sand, scrabble, scrape, scraping, scrubbing), ‏واصل سيره بصعوبة, ‏نظف (char, clean, clean out, clear, clear away, do, mop, pan, purge, purify, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, swab, wash out), ‏مسح (clean, extinguish, mop, mop up, mopping, polish, scanning, scrub, sponge, survey, swab, sweep, wipe, wiping), ‏مسح الدموع, ‏جلا (be evacuated, evacuate, pan, polish, puzzle out, scour, scrub, shine, wash). (various references)

Basque

garbitu (clean to, polish to, rub to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неприятност (annoyance, cross, headache, mischief, nuisance, packet, plague, scrape, shame, spot, trouble, vexation), подигравка (dig, flout, gibe, gird, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, mock, mockery, ridicule, scoff, sneer, snub, sport, twit, wipe), потърквам, присмех (derision, fling, hoot, jeer, laugh, mockery, ridicule, scoff, scorn, taunt), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, manacle, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse), протривам (chafe, fray, gall, scuff), протрито място (scuff), затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hardship, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), дразня (annoy, bait, bosh, bugger about, bullyrag, burn up, dig, exacerbate, fetch, fray, fuss, gall, gravel, gripe, harass, irritate, jar, jive, mad, madden, nag, niggle, nip, offend, peeve, pinprick, piss off, play up, provoke, rag, rasp, rib, ride, rile, spite, tease, titillate, try, twit, vex, worry), натърквам (grind into, rub in), разтривка (embrocation, inunction, rubdown), неравност на терен, триене (friction), трия (grate, grind, wipe), търкам (chafe, furbish, scour, scrub), търкам се, търкане (friction, unpleasantness), разтривам (embrocate, knead), разтриване (kneading), натриване. (various references)

Chinese 

蹭 (rub against, walk slowly), 磨�"�, 揉 (knead, massage), 摩 . (various references)

Czech

výtka (admonition, censure, rebuke, reproof), utírat (swab, swob, wipe, wipe off, wipe out), tření (friction), třít, překážka (balk, bar, barrier, blockage, fence, hamper, hazard, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, jump, obstacle, obstruction, resistance, restriction, roadblock, snag, trig), obtíž (annoyance, difficulty, nuisance), masáž (massage), leštit (burnish, polish, shine, wax), hladit (fondle, glaze), drhnout (chafe, pumice, scour), drbat, dřít se (fag, grind down, moil, slave), dřít (hurt, labor, labour, plod), dùtka (caution, censure, rebuke, reprimand), škrabat. (various references)

Danish

gnide. (various references)

Dutch

wrijven (crocking, currying, dressing, friction, rubbing, to curry, to dress and to brush, to groom), wrijven (polish), wrýven (polish), uitwrijven, uitwrijven, uitwrýven, uitschuren, schuren (abrade, polish), boenen (polish), aanstrijken (plaster), aanstrijken (plaster), aanstrýken (plaster). (various references)

Esperanto

frotpurigi, froti. (various references)

Faeroese

gníggja. (various references)

Farsi 

پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Ventilate, Wash, Winnow, Wipe), مالیدن (Blob, Curry, Daub, Knead), سودن , ساءیده شدن , ساءیدن (Bruise, Chafe, Fray, Gall, Gnaw, Grate, Grind, Grit, Levigate, Pulverize, Scuff), اصطکاک پیداکردن . (various references)

Finnish

syyhyttää (itch, scratch), kahnaus (rubbing), kahnata (chafe), hioa (cut, grind, sharpen, whet), hieroutua (chafe, gall), hieroa (grate, massage), hankausjälki (crush, scuff mark, scuffing), hankaus (friction), hangata (chafe, gall). (various references)

French

frotter. (various references)

Frisian

wriuwe. (various references)

German

reiben (chafe, grate, grind, rubbing, to chafe, to rub), frottieren (rubbing). (various references)

Greek 

τρίβω (abrade, brush, chafe, fray, frazzle, grate, grind, massage, pound, powder, scour, scrub, triturate, wear). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלול (crush, scrape), למרוק (cleanse, polish, scour, scrub), לשוף (file, graze, plaster, polish, scrape), לשפוף (crush), לשפשף (abrade, grate, grind, polish, rubber, scrub), לחכך (expectorate, scratch, spit), ל�"תחכך (scratch oneself), ל�"שתפשף (be rubbed, be scrubbed, be worn out). (various references)

Hungarian

dörzsölés (chafing, friction, rubbing, scour, scraping). (various references)

Indonesian

menggosok (embrocate, furbish, grind, incite, instigate, iron, polish, scour, shine), gesek (scrape), garuk (round up), bergosok (have a shine), bergeser. (various references)

Irish

cuimil. (various references)

Italian

fregare (cheat, pinch, rip off, rubbing, short-change, sneak, spoof, trick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�り込む (to grind & mix, to rub in), 摩る (to chafe, to file, to frost glass, to rub, to strike). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

する (to chafe, to cost, to do, to elapse, to file, to frost, to pass, to pick someone's pocket, to play, to practice, to print, to rub, to serve as, to shave, to strike, to try), �"する (to rub, to scrub), �"すりつける (to rub against, to strike), �"すりおとす (to rub off, to scrape off), さする (to be about to reach, to be equal to, to graze, to grind, to pat, to polish, to rub off, to scrape, to stroke), まする (to draw near, to press, to rub, to scrub), ひとのきにさわる (to hurt one's feelings, to rub someone the wrong way), もむ (to be troubled about, to coach, to crumple, to massage, to rub, to train, to worry over, to wrinkle), なでまわす (to pat, to rub, to stroke), すりくずす (to rub to pieces), すれる (to become sophisticated, to chafe, to rub, to wear), すれあう (to chafe, to quarrel, to rub against), すりへらす (to abrade, to rub down, to wear away), すり�"む (to grind and mix, to insert, to rub in, to stencil), すりつける (to rub against, to strike), すりく� く (to grind into powder, to rub to pieces), きにさわる (to hurt one's feelings, to rub someone the wrong way). (various references)

Korean 

문지름 (Scuffing). (various references)

Manx

rubbey (chafe, wipe), rubbal (rub down, rub up, rubbing), rub. (various references)

Occitan

fretar (polish). (various references)

Papiamen

frega. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubray.(various references)

Portuguese

friccionar (fray, grit, scrub), esfregar (fret, mop, rub down, scour, scrape, scrub). (various references)

Romanian

freca (chafe, contuse, fret, grate, grease, rub on, rub over, scrub, slate). (various references)

Russian 

тереть (chafe, grate, rubbed, rubbing). (various references)

Scottish

rub (caught), suath (knead, mix a soft substance, wipe), siab (sweep along quickly, wipe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ribati (scour, scrub, slush), trljati (chafe), trljanje (friction, rubbing), teškoća (ado, cumber, difficulty, kink), protrljati, očešati (brush, rase). (various references)

Spanish

frotar (abrade, abrasiveness, brush, chafe, rub in, scratch), friccionar (rubbing). (various references)

Sranan

lobi (affection, love), griti, frifi. (various references)

Swedish

gnugga (cram), gnida (chafe, fray, pinch, scrape, wipe), gno (bustle about, run, toil, work hard), frottera (chafe, rub down). (various references)

Thai

นว�" (knead), การนว�", การขั�", อุปสรรค (bar, handicap, hitch, thorn), ขู�" (scrape), ขั�"ถู. (various references)

Turkish

ovalamak (chafe, gall, scrub), engebeli oluş, engel (balk, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent, difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle, obstruction, restraint, retardation, shackles, slashing, snag, stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel), friksiyon yapma, friksiyon yapmak, güçlük (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complicacy, difficulty, hardship, hassle, hurdle, oppression, stumbling block), geçinip gitmek (muddle along, muddle on, rub along, subsist, worry along), iğneleme (dart, dig, pinning, pinprick, pointer, prick, quip, sarcasm), idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise), kazımak (delete, erase, grave, incise, inscribe, rub out, scrape, scratch, scratch along, scratch out, stamp, strip), klişe çıkarmak, laf çaktırma (allusion, hit, pinprick), mahzur (disability, handicap, inconvenience, objection), alay (banter, cortege, derision, fleet, fun, gag, gibe, irony, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, leg pull, mock, mockery, parade, persiflage, procession, quiz, regiment, regimental, ridicule, scoff, sneer, taunt, teasing, troops in line, wipe), ovalama (friction, rubbing, rubdown, scrub), zımparalamak (grind, paper, rub with emery, sandpaper), ovarak sürme, ovarak sürmek (rub in), ovma (friction, rubbing, rubdown, scrub), ovmak (knead, massage, rub down, scour, scour away, scour off, scrub), ovuşturmak (chafe, wring), pürüz (burr, roughness, shagginess), problem (cause, funeral, problem, question, trouble), sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), sürtünme (friction, frictional, rubbing), sürtünmek (brush, chafe, jostle, scrape), sürtme (friction, frictional, rubbing, scrape), sürtmek (chafe, gad, gad about, gall, hang out, horse around, loiter, muck about, range, tramp, wander idly), masaj yapmak (knead, massage, rub down). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьrtenmek, sьяkenmek (pester), sьяkemek (grate), oяkamak (grate, grind), зalmak (smear, spread). (various references)

Ukrainian

стирання (abrading, abrasion, attrition, defacement, deletion, effacement, erasement, erasure, obliteration), розтирати (chafe, contuse, knead, pulverize), тертя (abrasion, attrition, chafing, fret, friction, rubbing), тертися (chafe), терти (beat, chafe, fridge, grate, rasp, scrub), натирати (chafe), натирання (chafing, rubbing). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ch� xát sự lau, sự cọ xát. (various references)

Welsh

rhygnu (grate, harp, jar), rhwbio (chafe), rhathu (file, rasp), iro (anoint, baste, grease, smear), cluro (smear). (various references)

ghreu-. (various references)

adteratur, adterentur, adterere, adtereret, adteretur, adteritis, adtrita, adtriti, adtritis, adtritum, adtritus, adtriverat, adtrivisti, adtrivit, confricantes, exterant, exterat, exterent, extergent, extergere, extergimus, exterserit, extersit, extrita, fricare, subtritus, ter, terebat, terens, terentis, tergebat, tergo, terit, teruntur, thersa, trieris, tristis, trita, tritam, tritura, triturae, trituram. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rub": rubaboo, rubaboos, rubace, rubaces, rubaiyat, rubasse, rubasses, rubati, rubato, rubatos, rubbaboo, rubbaboos, rubbed, rubber, rubbered, rubbering, rubberize, rubberized, rubberizes, rubberizing, rubberlike, rubberneck, rubbernecked, rubbernecker, rubberneckers, rubbernecking, rubbernecks, rubbers, rubbery, rubbing, rubbings, rubbish, rubbishes, rubbishy, rubble, rubbled, rubbles, rubblier, rubbliest, rubbling, rubbly, rubdown, rubdowns, rube, rubefacient, rubefacients, rubella, rubellas, rubellite, rubellites, rubeola. (additional references)

Words ending with "rub": cherub, drub, grub, scrub, shrub, subshrub, undershrub. (additional references)

Words containing "rub": bilirubin, bilirubins, cherubic, cherubically, cherubim, cherubims, cherublike, cherubs, daunorubicin, daunorubicins, doxorubicin, doxorubicins, drubbed, drubber, drubbers, drubbing, drubbings, drubs, grubbed, grubber, grubbers, grubbier, grubbiest, grubbily, grubbiness, grubbinesses, grubbing, grubby, grubs, grubstake, grubstaked, grubstaker, grubstakers, grubstakes, grubstaking, grubworm, grubworms, krubi, krubis, krubut, krubuts, moneygrubbing, moneygrubbings, nonrubber, scrubbable, scrubbed, scrubber, scrubbers, scrubbier, scrubbiest, scrubbing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arub, eub, Rabb, rabh, Rbupc, recb, recbc, Repb, reub, rewb, rfb, rgb, Rhu, rhub, ribh, rilb, robb, roib, roub, rua, ruba, rubab, Rubb, Rubbo, rubl, rubu, ruc, rueb, Ruf, ruh, ruhbc, rui, ruib, ruj, ruk, rul, rumb, rup, ruq, Rur, ruv, ruw, rux, ruy, ruz, ryb, trub, urb, urbo, urf, urib, urq, urx, zub. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bur, urb.

+1 letter: blur, brut, buhr, bura, burd, burg, burl, burn, burp, burr, burs, bury, curb, drub, grub, rube, rubs, ruby, urbs.

+2 letters: bluer, blurb, blurs, blurt, bourg, bourn, brugh, bruin, bruit, brume, brunt, brush, brusk, brute, buhrs, buran, buras, burbs, burds, buret, burgh, burgs, burin, burke, burls, burly, burns, burnt, burps, burro, burrs, burry, bursa, burse, burst, buyer, crumb, cuber, curbs, drubs, exurb, grubs, krubi, rebus, rebut, rebuy, redub, rhumb, rubes, ruble, rubus, rugby, rumba, scrub, shrub, slurb, suber, tuber, turbo, umber, umbra, unbar, urban, urbia.