Spanish Word for rubbing  

English Word: rubbing

Spanish Word: frotacion, friccionar
The Spanish Word for rubbing
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We sell rubbing alcohol in the drugstore.
Nosotros vendemos alcohol en la farmacia.

So why are we rubbing salt into the wound of the Roman Catholic Church?
Así las cosas, ¿por qué nos empeñamos en propinar este nuevo puntapié a la Iglesia católica?
The animals are seriously harmed, because of the risk of the friction, rubbing, injuries and fights which may arise.
A los animales les perjudica sobremanera, por el riesgo de los frotamientos, los roces, las lesiones, las peleas que se pueden originar.
Can it really be that it is scared of rubbing the big yellow giant up the wrong way?
¿Será cierto que teme incomodar al gran gigante amarillo?
Now the cynics are rubbing their hands with glee at having come up with a no-lose stratagem.
Y ahora los cínicos están frotándose las manos porque han dado con una estratagema infalible.
On the photographs from Cairo, the African and European leaders may be rubbing shoulders with each other but, in reality, there is a yawning chasm separating the two continents.
En las fotografías tomadas en El Cairo los líderes africanos y europeos están muy juntos, pero, en realidad, ambos continentes aún están demasiado alejados uno de otro.
Ultimately, it is the rubbing points in cross-border judicial arrangements that grind down families and children.
Los roces interestatales en el ámbito judicial son los que acaban destrozando a las familias y a los niños.
This is a dangerous message, because some of the things that this report says may have certain mafia gangs rubbing their hands with glee.
Esto es un mensaje peligroso, porque puede hacer que algunas mafias se froten las manos al escuchar determinadas cosas que se dicen en ese informe.
The commercial sector is already rubbing its hands, dreaming of 'healthy' cloned pork enriched with Omega 3 fatty acids.
El sector comercial ya se está frotando las manos, soñando con un "sano" cerdo clonado enriquecido con ácidos grasos Omega 3.
Those who initiated this hysteria, those who acquired and illegally spread this discrediting information, are now rubbing their hands with glee.
Aquellos que iniciaron esta histeria, aquellos que adquirieron y difundieron de forma ilegal esta información desacreditadora ahora se frotan las manos con júbilo.
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