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Antonyms for rub
rʌbrub
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term rub.
Princeton's WordNet
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, arrestrub, wipeverb
the act of rubbing or wiping
"he gave the hood a quick rub"
rubverb
move over something with pressure
"rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin"
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, graverub, 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 Words
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
rub
Synonyms:
See Friction rub
How to use rub in a sentence?
I don't buy these things to rub it in anyone's face.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
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.
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.
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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