Meanings (ES + gloss)
frotación • frotamiento • frote
An act of rubbing.
Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
colidir (desus.) • estregar • fregar • fricar • friccionar • frotar • ludir • refregar • refrotar • resobar • restregar • sobar
To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
I rubbed the cloth over the glass.
The cat rubbed itself against my leg.
frotar • frotarse
To be rubbed against something.
My shoes are beginning to rub.
ungir • untar
To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
The smoothed plank, […] / New rubbed with balm.
meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
Phrases
rub alongrub awayrub downrub elbowsrub inrub it inrub offrub off onrub one offrub one outrub one's face with a brass candlestickrub one's handsrub one's hands togetherrub oneself offrub outrub salt in someone's woundsrub salt in the woundrub shouldersrub someone the wrong wayrub someone's face inrub someone's nose inrub the fear of God intorub uprub up againstrub up onrub up the wrong wayrubberrubbingrubboardtwo brain cells to rub togethertwo pennies to rub together