| 单词 | rub |
| 释义 | rub (once / 189 pages) 1vn 2n To rub is to push firmly and repeatedly, like when you rub your sore foot. When Hamlet says, "aye, there's the rub," he's not talking about getting a massage. Rub, as a noun, is an obstacle or something in your way. You can rub someone's aching back or rub sunblock on your arms and legs. You can also watch chunks of melting ice on a lake's surface rub against each other or complain that your new shoes rub your heels and give you blisters. Colloquially, you might rub off on your friends, or begin to influence them by your mere presence. If, however, you rub them the wrong way, you irritate or annoy them. The noun rub is not used nearly as often as the verb, but people do love to allude to Hamlet's "aye, there's the rub" line in the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, referring to the unforeseen dreams of death that haunt mankind. WORD FAMILYrub: rubbed, rubbing, rubs+/rubbing: rubbings USAGE EXAMPLESHe rubbed his hands together and kept repeating those words: “It hurts.” Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) He settled each onto his workbench and rubbed beeswax into them until they darkened and turned shiny. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) He grabbed a tissue, doused it with rubbing alcohol and started furiously rubbing at his fingers. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1v move over something with pressure rub my hands rub oil into her skin Hypo|Hyper brush rub with a brush, or as if with a brush pumicerub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen gaugerub to a uniform size puree, strainrub through a strainer or process in an electric blender rosinrub rosin onto sponge down, sponge offclean with a sponge, by rubbing worrytouch or rub constantly scour, scrubclean with hard rubbing abrade, scourrub hard or scrub blur, smear, smudge, smutchmake a smudge on; soil by smudging grate, scrapescratch repeatedly pass over, wiperub with a circular motion gratereduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface pawscrape with the paws holystonescrub with a holystone resmudgesmudge again dustrub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape spongewipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten squeegeewipe with a squeegee broom, sweepsweep with a broom or as if with a broom towelwipe with a towel whisk, whisk offbrush or wipe off lightly draw, guide, pass, run pass over, across, or through 2v scrape or rub as if to relieve itching Syn|Hyper itch, scratch irritate excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame 3v cause friction Syn|Hyper chafe, fray, fret, scratch adjoin, contact, meet, touch be in direct physical contact with; make contact 4n the act of rubbing or wiping 2he gave the hood a quick rub Syn|Hypo|Hyper wipe scuff the act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet) contact, physical contact the act of touching physically n an unforeseen obstacle Syn|Hyper hang-up, hitch, snag obstacle, obstruction something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted |
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