[ UK /ɹˈʌb/ ]
[ US /ˈɹəb/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of rubbing or wiping
    he gave the hood a quick rub
  2. an unforeseen obstacle
VERB
  1. cause friction
    my sweater scratches
  2. move over something with pressure
    rub oil into her skin
    rub my hands
  3. scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
    Don't scratch your insect bites!
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How To Use rub In A Sentence

  • The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
  • Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
  • Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
  • Rub a bit of peppermint oil directly onto your forehead; it acts as an antispasmodic.
  • At this point we must trace our way back, pass through the flowering shrubs and plunge into the shade of a little wood. The Education of a Gardener
  • Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
  • If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
  • It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823). Biography
  • The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
  • Some houses were reduced to neat rectangles of foot-high rubble.
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