English Words: R

An act of rubbing.

To survive or get by with some difficulty.

A massage parlor where one can get a massage with a hand job.

To rub in order to erase

To rub from top to bottom, e.g. for cleaning, stripping paint or massage.

To associate closely; to consort, mingle, or socialize.

To apply by rubbing.

To add insult to injury; to emphasize one's strengths or another's weaknesses in a manner that degrades another.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, off.

To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure.

Synonym of masturbate.

To masturbate.

To (prepare to) be very brazen or impudent.

Alternative form of rub one's hands together.

To anticipate something eagerly.

To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser).

To make a painful situation even worse (even with the best of intentions).

To aggravate or exacerbate a physical or emotional injury.

To associate closely; to socialize or mingle.

To bother, disturb, irritate, or annoy.

Alternative form of rub someone's nose in.

To confront someone with (facts or evidence) that they find unpleasant in order to make them suffer.

Alternative form of put the fear of God into.

To polish or scrub; to cover (something with a substance) by rubbing.

To touch something with one's body.

To rub one's body against another person as a form of sexual stimulation or flirting.

plural of ruba'i

A traditional lute-like musical instrument of Central Asia.

A basic stew or porridge based on peas and/or corn.

The sound of a drum being continuously beaten.

A quatrain in classical Arabic, Persian, Turkic or Urdu poetry.

plural of rubai

A ribbon.

Synonym of kosovorotka.

plural of rubashka

crystalline quartz coloured red by hematite

A tempo in which strict timing is relaxed, the music being played near, but not on, the beat.

The unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat

That can be rubbed; suitable for rubbing.

Alternative form of rubbish.

simple past and past participle of rub

simple past and past participle of rub someone the wrong way

Of or relating to the crops, or harvest of the crops, sown after the rains and reaped in the following spring or early summer.

Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.

A contraceptive diaphragm.

A type of non-lethal crowd-suppression grenade that spews out semi-hard plastic-coated steel balls similar to rubber bullets when it blasts apart.

Alternative form of rubber-band.

A large ballistic projectile made of or coated with rubber that has a propellant charge, typically used for riot control.

A check that is rejected by the bank against which it is drawn for insufficient funds.

A hollow, bright yellow toy or prop depicting a plucked chicken that emits a squeak when squeezed.