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rub down

VERB
  1. wear away
  2. manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes
    She rubbed down her child with a sponge

How To Use rub down In A Sentence

  • Burn off the old paint, fill any cracks in the woodwork, and rub down well with sandpaper.
  • Trainers rub down an athlete after hard exercise.
  • Rub down the door and wash off the dust before applying the varnish.
  • When I was a child in the Thornbury district, shopkeepers took pride in their own shop frontage and it was a morning ritual for them to take a bucket of hot soapy water and a long brush to scrub down their own pavement.
  • Rub down the door and wash off the dust before applying the varnish.
  • Finally, rub down the wood to remove the splinters, give it a thin wash of acrylic paint and brush on the clear preservative.
  • Rub down with fine wire wool. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do you scrub down every work surface every day, and use a sanitizer solution on every submersible part?
  • Scrub downward over the vulva and perineum beginning over the pubic area and ending in the anal area; discard the sponge after going over the anus.
  • Burn off the old paint, fill any cracks in the woodwork, and rub down well with sandpaper.
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