| drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| grubbily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grungily |
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| grubbiness | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: griminess |
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| grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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| (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
| (noun) small sculpin of the coast of New England | Synonyms: Myxocephalus aenaeus |
| moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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| rubber | (adjective) returned for lack of funds | Synonyms: no-good |
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| (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe |
| (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, safe, safety |
| (noun) an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil | Synonyms: pencil eraser, rubber eraser |
| (noun) a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides | - |
| (noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: caoutchouc, gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber |
| (noun) any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber | Synonyms: synthetic rubber |
| (verb) coat or impregnate with rubber | Synonyms: rubberise, rubberize |
| 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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| rubberlike | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubbery |
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| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
| rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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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 |
| rubbery | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubberlike |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, gristly |
| rubbing | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: detrition, friction |
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| (noun) representation consisting of a copy (as of an engraving) made by laying paper over something and rubbing it with charcoal | - |
| (noun) the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another | Synonyms: friction |
| rubbish | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
| (verb) attack strongly | - |
| rubbishy | (adjective) cheap and inferior; of no value | Synonyms: trashy |
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| rubble | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, junk |
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| scrubbed | (adjective) made clean by scrubbing | - |
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| scrubber | (noun) a purifier that removes impurities from a gas | - |
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| (noun) a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning | Synonyms: scrub brush, scrubbing brush |
| (noun) a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck) | - |
| scrubbiness | (noun) the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| scrubbing | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scouring, scrub |
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| scrubbird | (noun) small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub | Synonyms: scrub-bird, scrub bird |
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| scrubby | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrawny, stunted |
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| (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrabbly |
| shrubbery | (noun) a collection of shrubs growing together | - |
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| (noun) an area where a number of shrubs are planted | - |
| shrubby | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, fruticulose |
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