Rub with oil
The crossword clue "Rub with oil" is answered by ANOINT, a 6-letter entry. Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ANOINT
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANOINT answer page.
Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANOINT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANOINT, most used first.
- Consecrate - used 71 times, most recently in 2025
- Consecrate with oil - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Bless with oil - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Apply holy oil to - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Sprinkle with oil - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Choose formally - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Apply oil to - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Bless - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Consecrate, in a way - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Make sacred - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Put holy oil on - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Choose as a successor - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Consecrate using oil - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Designate - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Embrocate - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Sanctify with oil - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
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- Familiar with - USEDTO, used 61 times
- Fill with love - ENAMOR, used 43 times
- Puts up with - ABIDES, used 40 times
- Be short with - SNAPAT, used 33 times
- Fill with bubbles - AERATE, used 33 times
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