rub
verb (used with object)
to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing.
unrubbed
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a word derived from
rub.
Example Sentences
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"Marble slabs, rubbed" are going to cost more to import than "marble slabs, unrubbed."
From Love Conquers All by Gluyas Williams
She, with the dreams still unrubbed from her opening eyes, he a December primrose peeping up anew out of the roots of his wrecked and fruitless years—they would have been matchlessly coupled.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
What we are planning to do in this office is to get in a quantity of unrubbed marble slabs and then rub them ourselves.
From Love Conquers All by Gluyas Williams
This carelessness occasioned the unevenness of the earth; the mountains and the rocks which are now found upon it are the lumps which he threw down unrubbed.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones
Catch your moth in the net, take him out of it by cornering him with the open mouth of your poison bottle, so that you secure him unrubbed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
