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

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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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1. Roland Barthes:

   Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

2. 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.

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. Michelle Bennett:

   Not being able to be there and hold my mom's hand, rub her head, tell her the things I wanted to say her. It was such a helpless feeling, I can just remember the days leading up feeling so frustrated and helpless and not being able to talk to her because she was not conscious during that time.

5. Claire Carmalt:

   The biggest challenge for self-cleaning surfaces is finding a way to make them tough enough to withstand everyday damage, the surfaces tend to be mechanically weak and so rub off easily. But by pairing our paint with different adhesives, we've shown it is possible to make a robust self-cleaning surface.