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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
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
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- 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
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
- To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
- To clear (a body of water or part thereof) of mines.
- To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
- To move something in a long sweeping motion, as a broom.
- To row with one oar to either the port or starboard side.
- To strike with a long stroke.
- To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
- To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
- To travel quickly.
- To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
- To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
- To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
- To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
- To search (a place) methodically.
- To draw or drag something over.
- To play a sweep shot.
- To vacuum a carpet or rug.
noun
- Any of several sea chubs in the family Kyphosidae (subfamily Scorpidinae).
- The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
- Violent and general destruction.
- The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
- A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
- A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
- A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
- A single action of sweeping.
- The person who steers a dragon boat.
- A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
- Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
- A rowing style in which each rower rows with oar on either the port or starboard side.
- An expanse or a swath, a strip of land.
- A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
- In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
- A movable template for making moulds, in loam moulding.
- Any of the blades of a windmill.
- A chimney sweep.
- The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
- A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
- A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
verb
- To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
- To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger.
- To yield grass for grazing.
- To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
- To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
- To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout.
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
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To rub or burnish with cotton.
- To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
- To develop a porous, cottony texture.
- To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
- To provide with cotton.
- To cover walls with fabric.
- To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
- To supply with a cotton wick.
- To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
- To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
- To fill with a wad of cotton.
- To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
- To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
noun
- Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.
- An item of clothing made from cotton.
- Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
- Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
adj
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
verb
- To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow].
- To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- To barely manage to achieve.
- To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
noun
- A shave.
- A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
verb
- To sting.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
verb
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface 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.
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.
noun
- Someone or something which rubs.
- An individual match within the series (especially in racquet sports).
- A coarse towel for rubbing the body.
- An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
- Water-resistant shoe covers, galoshes, overshoes.
- Synthetic materials with the same properties as natural rubber.
- An eraser.
- One who practises massage.
- A condom.
- The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
- One who rubs down horses.
- Tires, particularly racing tires.
- A rubber match; a game or match played to break a tie.
- The entire series, of an odd number of games or matches in which ties are impossible (especially a series of three games in bridge or whist).
- The cushion of an electric machine.
- Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon polymer of isoprene.
- The game of rubber bridge.
adj
verb
verb
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- cause friction
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
noun
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- informal terms for money
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- dry mash for poultry
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- poor handwriting
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
adj
verb
- To hurt or sting.
- To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
adj
- Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).
- Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.
- Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
- Sharp; keen; poignant.
- Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
- Sudden and intense.
- Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
- Causing sharp pain; stinging.
noun
verb
- To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
- To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
- To speak sharply.
- To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To strip the bark from; to peel.
- To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
- To girdle.
noun
- The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
- The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
- Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
- An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
- A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
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
suffix
verb
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To exasperate.
- To bother or trouble.
noun
- Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- A feeling of exasperation.
- The gall bladder.
- A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
- A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To move with one's fingertips.
noun
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
noun
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
verb
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- To be immediately apparent.
- To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- To reflect light.
- To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
noun
verb
verb
verb
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To make mild or kind; to soften.
- To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
- To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
- To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
- To make warm and fertile.
- To restore to purity; to free from taint.
- To become sweet.
- To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
- To make sweet to the taste.
- To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
- To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
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