Rubbing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RUBBING in dictionary:

VERB:
• apply firm pressure to the surface of (something), using a repeated back and forth motion
• apply (ointment, polish, or a similar substance) with a back and forth motion
• make dry, clean, or smooth by rubbing
• reproduce the design of (a sepulchral brass or a stone) by rubbing paper laid on it with coloured wax, pencil, or chalk, etc.
• (with reference to two things) move or cause to move to and fro against each other with a certain amount of friction
• (of shoes or other hard items in contact with the skin) cause pain through friction
• (of a bowl) be slowed or diverted by the unevenness of the ground.
• move (one's hand, a cloth, or another object) back and forth against a surface
• work an ingredient into (a mixture) by breaking and blending it with firm movements of one's fingers
RESIDUAL:
• Russian rouble(s).
NOUN:
• an image produced by rubbing
• an act of rubbing
• an ointment designed to be rubbed on the skin to ease pain
• the central problem or difficulty in a situation
• (in bowling) an uneven patch of ground that impedes or diverts a bowl.
• the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another
• representation consisting of a copy (as of an engraving) made by laying paper over something and rubbing it with charcoal
• effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move along the surface of a body with pressure
• a. & n. from Rub, v.

Words related to RUBBING

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Words that contain RUBBING

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How to use RUBBING in a sentence

• Blake, with a jolly laugh, as he came in rubbing his ears.
• Holcombe came to my kitchen, rubbing his hands together.
• He forgot the cuts upon his face, arose and came back to find Bensington seated on the ground and rubbing his shoulder.
• The whole concourse lay for some minutes with their very noses rubbing to the ground, until they were all roused at once by a loud burst of laughter.
• Or perhaps the pretty pastoral of the peasant girl knee deep in the brook, rubbing her household linen on the stones, hath even greater charms.
• He had broken loose in some manner, and probably begun his favorite operation of making his toilet on the corner of the wagon by rubbing against it.
• However, all ended happily, and save for rubbing that part of his anatomy where he wore a collar after he was grown up, Whitey was all right.
• In the rubbing out form of the puzzle, first rub out A to B with a single finger in one stroke.
• In any of these situations, they swell and burst their skins, from which, when dry, they are carefully separated by rubbing between the hands, or fanning.
• He dreams that an enemy is beating him, and he wakes rubbing his head.
• Up jumped Abe and began to leap about the house, clapping, rubbing his hands, and blessing the Lord.
• Then he began to smart in different places, and he was hard put to it to keep rubbing them.
• He had often come up to her, rubbing his hands together, and saying little words, as though there was some reason from their positions that they two should be friends.
• He always had shiny shoes and we niggers would keep rubbing them so they would shine more.
• If it is not tight then the bag needs another rubbing.
• Cat walked between my legs, rubbing himself against my boots, purring and singing.
• This habit is so far analogous to that of rubbing against something, that both apparently are derived from actions performed during the nursing period.
• Add the orange juice, strain, and sweeten to taste with sugar that has been flavored by rubbing over the yellow rind of an orange until mixed with the oil in the rind.
• The hand she extended to Sylvia was so thin that she thought she could feel the bones rubbing together.
• If the chance to dirty diminishing is necessary, if it is why is there no complexion, why is there no rubbing, why is there no special protection.

Similar words containing RUBB without suffix ing

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