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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rub .
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Examples
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I would have fain rubbed my eyes and looked again, for, as far as I could see, the rocks bordering upon the ocean were covered with seals.
Chapter 19 2010
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I would have fain rubbed my eyes and looked again, for, as far as I could see, the rocks bordering upon the ocean were covered with seals.
Chapter 19 2010
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The captain rubbed his hands together and twirled in his chair.
Project Armageddon, or The Beam O’Doom: Putting the Lid Where It Belongs « Unknowing 2010
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Calvin rubbed his fingers into his aching temples.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Melissa Robertson, who said the skin rubbed off her fingertips where she clutched the rail, said the escalator stopped as she got to the bottom.
Malfunctioning escalator injures 4 at L'Enfant Plaza station Maria Glod 2010
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Huxley wrote, "How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn, when Aladdin rubbed his lamp." [6, p. 229, quote]
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When he got his name rubbed in the dirt by that mess, McCain decided he would claim to be for cleaning up Washington, so he approached Democrat Russ Feingold to craft campaign finance reform regulations.
McCain - Which John McCain will we see at Tomorrow's Debate? 2008
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The chieftain rubbed his dim eyes and groaned, If only my good friend knew the folly of turning my letter into the hands of bureaucrats!
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I would have fain rubbed my eyes and looked again, for, as far as I could see, the rocks bordering upon the ocean were covered with seals.
Chapter 19 1915
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I let out a few more links, and I cut him to the raw and therein rubbed winged and flaming epithets.
reesetee commented on the word rubbed
In rare/antique books, used to describe a volume in which color has been worn away from parts of the binding or dustjacket.
February 22, 2007