rub | (verb) move over something with pressure | - |
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(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, scratch |
(verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, scratch |
rubber | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize |
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rubberise | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberize |
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rubberize | (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubber, rubberise |
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rubberneck | (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
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rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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(verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
rubbish | (verb) attack strongly | - |
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rubify | (verb) make ruby red | - |
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rubric | (verb) adorn with ruby red color | - |
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rubricate | (verb) sign with a mark instead of a name | - |
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(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: miniate |
(verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics | - |
(verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint | - |
ruck | (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: pucker, ruck up |
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ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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(verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
ruddle | (verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
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(verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
rue | (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: regret, repent |
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ruff | (verb) play a trump | Synonyms: trump |
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ruffle | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
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(verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
(verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
(verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
(verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
(verb) trouble or vex | - |
(verb) discompose | - |
(verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
ruggedise | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedize |
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ruggedize | (verb) produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage | Synonyms: ruggedise |
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ruin | (verb) fall into ruin | - |
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(verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably | Synonyms: destroy |
(verb) reduce to ruins | - |
(verb) deprive of virginity | Synonyms: deflower |
(verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, break, smash |
(verb) destroy or cause to fail | - |
rule | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rein |
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(verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: decree |
(verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: find |
(verb) mark or draw with a ruler | - |
(verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: govern |
(verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign |
(verb) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac | - |
rumba | (verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rhumba |
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rumble | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, grumble |
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(verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: grumble |
ruminate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over |
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(verb) chew the cuds | - |
rummage | (verb) search haphazardly | - |
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rumor | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumour |
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rumour | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: bruit, rumor |
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rumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle |
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(verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up |
(verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker |
rumpus | (verb) cause a disturbance | - |
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run | (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt, melt down |
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(verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: ladder |
(verb) progress by being changed | Synonyms: go, move |
(verb) change from one state to another | - |
(verb) become undone | Synonyms: unravel |
(verb) cause to perform | - |
(verb) compete in a race | Synonyms: race |
(verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt, hunt down, track down |
(verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: campaign |
(verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, operate, work |
(verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, pass |
(verb) be operating, running or functioning | - |
(verb) conduct to completion | - |
(verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: play |
(verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: carry |
(verb) move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time | - |
(verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, flow |
(verb) keep company | Synonyms: consort |
(verb) sail before the wind | - |
(verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
(verb) cover by running; run a certain distance | - |
(verb) run with the ball; in such sports as football | - |
(verb) be diffused | Synonyms: bleed |
(verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: ply |
(verb) cause an animal to move fast | - |
(verb) move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way | - |
(verb) travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means | - |
(verb) deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor | Synonyms: black market |
(verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: execute |
(verb) make without a miss | - |
(verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: operate |
(verb) set animals loose to graze | - |
(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, pass |
(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, tend |
(verb) be affected by; be subjected to | - |
(verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, prevail |
(verb) have a particular form | Synonyms: go |
(verb) extend or continue for a certain period of time | Synonyms: run for |
(verb) occur persistently | - |
(verb) change or be different within limits | Synonyms: range |
(verb) cause something to pass or lead somewhere | Synonyms: lead |
rupture | (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
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rush | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
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(verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
(verb) attack suddenly | - |
(verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
(verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
(verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
(verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
rust | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: corrode |
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(verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, eat |
(verb) become coated with oxide | - |
rusticate | (verb) lend a rustic character to | - |
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(verb) give (stone) a rustic look | - |
(verb) send to the country | - |
(verb) suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | Synonyms: send down |
(verb) live in the country and lead a rustic life | - |
rustle | (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
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(verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
(verb) forage food | - |
rut | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, groove |
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(verb) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals | - |