RUB-A-DUB Synonyms

• clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

• purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins

• dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

• play in or as if in water, as of small children

• work with in an amateurish manner

• bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water

• put out, as of a candle or a light

• wet thoroughly

• dip into a liquid

• immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

• lower quickly

• slacken

• cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

• force to drink

• permeate or impregnate

• cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

• thrust or throw into

• devote (oneself) fully to

• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

• cause to be immersed

• wash or flow against

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• wash one's face and hands

• a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint

• the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing

• the act of giving a light tint to the hair

• washing lightly without soap

• wash off soap or remaining dirt

• clean with some chemical process

• rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash

• dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

• the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

• (of domestic animals) not selectively bred

• clean with hard rubbing

• wash thoroughly

• postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled

• cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair

• the act of washing your hair with shampoo

• use shampoo on (hair)

• the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)

• washing something by allowing it to soak

• submerge in a liquid

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price

• cover with liquid; pour liquid onto

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• beat severely

• make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

• become drunk or drink excessively

• fill, soak, or imbue totally

• heat a metal prior to working it

• a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

• someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

• wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

• soak up with a sponge

• gather sponges, in the ocean

• a thin coat of water-base paint

• the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)

• the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)

• the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other

• garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering

• any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out

• clean with some chemical process

• cleanse (one's body) with soap and water

• cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water

• move by or as if by water

• be capable of being washed

• admit to testing or proof

• separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)

• apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

• remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent

• form by erosion

• make moist

• wash or flow against

• wash by removing particles

• to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking

• the sound made by beating a drum

• (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown

• a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause

• the sound made by beating a drum