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Antonyms for rub
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Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. hang-up, hitch, rub, snagnoun

    an unforeseen obstacle

    Synonyms:
    rent, split, enlistment, preventative, term of enlistment, duty tour, stay, preventive, tear, wipe, limp, hitch, tour, interference, stoppage, check, tour of duty, hinderance, incumbrance, hobble, snag, halt, encumbrance, hang-up, hindrance, rip, stop, arrest

  2. rub, wipeverb

    the act of rubbing or wiping

    "he gave the hood a quick rub"

    Synonyms:
    hang-up, hitch, snag, wipe

  3. rubverb

    move over something with pressure

    "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin"

    Synonyms:
    fray, itch, chafe, scratch, fret

  4. rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratchverb

    cause friction

    "my sweater scratches"

    Synonyms:
    fuss, eat into, itch, excise, gag, choke, scratch up, nark, erode, fret, excoriate, bother, rile, scrub, gravel, strike, inscribe, rankle, get to, eat away, come up, scrape up, scrape, cancel, nettle, gall, call off, chafe, get at, engrave, scratch, irritate, annoy, frazzle, niggle, rag, expunge, vex, grate, fray, devil, grave

  5. rub, scratch, itchverb

    scrape or rub as if to relieve itching

    "Don't scratch your insect bites!"

    Synonyms:
    itch, call off, scrape up, expunge, spoil, fret, grave, strike, chafe, come up, scratch, cancel, inscribe, engrave, scrub, scrape, fray, excise, scratch up

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. rubnoun

    Synonyms:
    friction, hindrance, impediment, obstruction, pinch, difficulty, sarcasm, jeer, jibe, taunt, whetstone

  2. rubverb

    Synonyms:
    abrade, chafe, scrape, grate, fret, embrocate, massage, graze, scour, smooth, smear, fray, burnish, furbish, polish

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. rub

    Synonyms:
    See Friction rub

How to use rub in a sentence?

  1. Christian Carrington:

    I don't buy these things to rub it in anyone's face.

  2. Michel de Montaigne:

    It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others

  3. The State Department:

    Operation Allies Refuge. but here's the rub, and I acknowledge this, there is a difference between moving expeditiously to get this program off the ground, off the dead stall that it was in, and get it moving.... there's a difference between that and a full-on evacuation.

  4. Cheng Yonghua:

    If the statement is deliberately made vague, or if it lightens responsibility, it will once again rip open the wounds of China and the other victims, and rub salt in them.

  5. Read MoreShoaib:

    I think that only once they came in they realized Muslims live here and decided to rub it in our faces.

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