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rub one's hands en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rub one's hands together.
    • Motorway-minded Marples might have been rubbing his hands, and the sorry deficit figures placed on his desk gave him all the ammunition he needed to press the case for reform. 2023 March 8, Howard Johnson, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
rubs one's hands Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
rubbing one's hands Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rubbed one's hands Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rubbed one's hands Tense=Past lexicographic