Synonyms for rub
rʌbrub

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Irritate
   • Obstacle
   • Pass

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. massage

   rub in a manner to bring relief to muscles.

   the woman at the gym gives a wonderful massage.

   Submitted by JP03 on June 11, 2015  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rubverb

   Synonyms:
   abrade, scrape, chafe, grate

2. rubverb

   Synonyms:
   wipe, clean, scour

3. rubverb

   Synonyms:
   grate, chafe

4. rubnoun

   Synonyms:
   obstacle, difficulty, embarrassment, perplexity, dilemma, nonplus, poser, quandary, puzzle, knotty point, nice point

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "rub":

   scrub, bmw, massage, wipe

NicknamesRate these nicknames:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of known nicknames for "Rub":

   Clark, Michael, Michael Clark

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rub

   Synonyms:
   See Friction rub
   

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How to use rub in a sentence?

1. Joe Sliwkowski:

   Basil has anti-inflammatory properties, so if my kids have bites I just take the leaf, crinkle it and rub it on the skin.

2. Virgil:

   It is easy to go down into hell night and day, the gates of dark death stand wide, but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

3. Bob Menendez:

   That's where the rub will be.

4. William Shakespeare:

   To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.

5. Anne Rimoin:

   When you speak, sometimes you'll spit a little bit, you'll rub your nose. You'll touch your mouth. You'll rub your eyes. And then you'll touch other surfaces, and then you will be spreading virus if you are infected and shedding asymptomatically.