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[ 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!

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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • I put on black eyeliner, mascara, red eye shadow with black tints towards the edges of my eyes, and ruby colored lipstick.
  • This has a deep ruby colour and complex range of flavours. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
  • Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
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