The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GALL which also is the latest solution we found used in Crosswords Media in 2003.
Rub sore crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GALL | 100 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Rub sore
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- massage
- gall
- galled
- chafe
- chafed
- fret
- fretfulness
- fretting
- ache
- dress
- abrade
- caress
Crossword Answer definitions
GALL noun- Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
- The gall bladder.
- Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
- A feeling of exasperation.
- Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
- A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To bother or trouble.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
- To exasperate.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
- A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
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