to clean a horse’s body by rubbing it with a brush
to dry someone’s body by rubbing it with a towel
to rub a surface to make it smooth or dry
I rubbed myself down with a dry towel.
The front door was in such poor shape that Paula found herself wishing she'd brought along her sandpaper to give it a good rub down.
The last act was to take out a handkerchief and rub down everything he had touched, including her skin.
`Take her upstairs and help her to rub down thoroughly and change everything.
rubs down
rubbing down
rubbed down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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