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, rub

2. rub, wipeverb

   the act of rubbing or wiping

   "he gave the hood a quick rub"

   Synonyms:
   hang-up, hitch, snag, wipe, rub

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, rub, 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, rub

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

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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. Bob Menendez:

   That's where the rub will be.

2. Bill McCollum:

   President Donald Trump is very bright, but President Donald Trump doesn't read a lot, and buys into a lot of conspiracy theories, some of those theories could be correct, and he wants to find out what really happened in 2016. I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that. Is that in the national interest, or is it purely political ? That's the rub. It'll be difficult for The Democrats to separate those two.

3. Richard Coles:

   Now here is the rub, a British-flagged vessel or an American-flagged, these are flag states that rigorously enforce their safety rules, whereas if Richard Coles have a small Caribbean island which doesn't have a large civil service and the means of enforcing the rules, obviously, the standards are not likely to be as good.

4. 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.

5. Andie MacDowell:

   I am crazy about the smell of these incense sticks! they make you smell like a spa. I wish L’Oréal would make a perfume to smell like this incense because I love it. I rub this on me and I get so many compliments.