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verb
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
noun
verb
- To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- To be diligent and penurious
- To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
adj
noun
- One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.
- One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant
- Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- One who scrubs.
- One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- A cancellation.
- A worn-out brush.
- One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- Clothing worn while performing surgery.
- Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
verb
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- work hard
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- created by grinding
- shape or form by grinding
noun
verb
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
- To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To make something dirty.
- To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
noun
- A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- A mark made by smearing.
- A rough glissando in jazz music.
- A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
verb
- rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- touch lightly and briefly
- clean with a brush
- sweep across or over
- remove with or as if with a brush
- cover by brushing
noun
- a dense growth of bushes
- an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- momentary contact
- conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- a minor short-term fight
- the act of brushing your teeth
- the act of brushing your hair
- contact with something dangerous or undesirable
noun
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- A loan.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- A difficulty or problem.
verb
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To be rubbed against something.
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
noun
- The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
- A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
- The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
- An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
- The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
verb
- To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
- To strike.
- To make a character or an item stronger.
- To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
noun
- Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
- Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
- A military coat made of buff leather.
- A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
- The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
- Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
- A brownish yellow colour.
- A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
- A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
- An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
- The bare skin.
adj
noun
- The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
- (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.
- Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
verb
adj
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
adj
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- lacking obstructions or difficulties
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
noun
verb
- To rub.
- To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
- To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
- Often followed by away, off, or out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
- Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or worn out.
- To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
- To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
- To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
- Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
- Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
- To alarm or frighten (someone or something).
- To chase (someone or something) away; to disperse.
- To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
noun
verb
noun
- an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
- a skin sore caused by chafing
- abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
- the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
verb
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- be agitated or irritated
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- cause annoyance in
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- carve a pattern into
- decorate with an interlaced design
- be too tight; rub or press
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- wear away or erode
noun
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- To appear positive and highly respected.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
noun
verb
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
noun
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
noun
- The scratching, etching, burning / branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.
- A medieval form of penance in which the skin was damaged with a knife or hot iron.
- The act of scarifying: raking the ground harshly to remove weeds, etc.
- A route of administration for some vaccinations and tests: rather than hypodermic injection, the site is inoculated intradermally not with any injection but rather only with small, shallow pricks or scratches; the needle is not hollow.
verb
- To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
- To harrow the feelings.
- To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
- To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
- To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
- To make scratches or cuts on.
verb
- To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- To fit with glass; to glaze.
- To become glassy.
- To enclose in glass.
- To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- To make glassy.
noun
- The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
- A barometer.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- Lenses, considered collectively.
- Glassware.
- The backboard.
- A magnifying glass or telescope.
- A mirror.
- Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
verb
- To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
- To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
- Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
- Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
- To ruffle; to disorder.
- Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
- To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
intj
noun
- A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
- Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
- An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
- Philomachus pugnax (syn. Calidris pugnax), a gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).
- A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
- Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
- A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
- A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.
verb
- To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
- To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
- To level a surface by applying furring to it.
noun
- The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
- The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
- Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
- The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.
- Pubic hair.
- A thick pile of fabric.
- The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
- Sexual attractiveness.
- A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
- The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
- A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
- One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures.
verb
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
noun
adj
- made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
- having strong or striking color
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- having lots of light either natural or artificial
- splendid
- clear and sharp and ringing
- characterized by happiness or gladness
- likely to turn out well in the future
adj
adv
verb
- To create slashes in a garment.
- To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- To criticize cuttingly.
- To swing wildly at the ball.
- To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- To write slash fiction.
- To piss, to urinate.
- To work in wet conditions.
- To reduce sharply.
- To move quickly and violently.
- To strike violently and randomly
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
conj
adv
noun
- A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- A swampy area; a swamp.
- A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- Slash fiction.
- A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- Female genitalia.
- A wild swinging strike of the bat.
- A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A sharp reduction.
- A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- Any similar wide striking motion.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To work hard.
- To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
noun
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- The fur of the beaver.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A beard or a bearded person.
- A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
noun
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- Lengths of fine wire, silver, gold, silk or whalebone wrapped tightly around the bow stick adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel of the bow.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
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