to rub, to chafe, to file, to frost (glass), to strike (match)
Example sentences
彼は手で目をこすった。
He rubbed his eyes with his hands.
彼は車を角の電柱でこすって傷をつけてしまった。
He scraped his car on the utility pole at the corner.
石けんを付けてごしごしこすれば汚れが落ちます。
Rub briskly with soap, and the stain will soon wash off.
More N2 vocabulary
- 看板sign, signboard, doorplate, poster
- 灯台lighthouse
- 潜る(1) to drive, to pass through, (2) to evade, to hide, (3) to dive (into or under water), to go undergroun
- 一昨日day before yesterday
- 並行(going) side by side, concurrent, abreast, at the same time
- 俄sudden, abrupt, unexpected, improvised, offhand