The meaning of RUBBING is an image of a raised, incised, or textured surface obtained by placing paper over it and rubbing the paper with a colored substance. How to use rubbing in a sentence.

Synonyms for RUBBING: wearing, eroding, fraying, reducing, chafing, abrading, shaving, scraping; Antonyms of RUBBING: scuffing, roughing (up), roughening, coarsening ...