Her positive attitude 'rubbed off' on other people. [=other people began to have a positive attitude from being around her]
We 'rubbed' the steaks with spices before we grilled them. = We 'rubbed' spices onto the steaks before we grilled them.
It's bad enough that he beat me, but the way he keeps talking about it is just 'rubbing salt in the wound'.
(..) take the water coming off the pipe... ...combined with the wind coming through the broken window... ...these boards are gonna expand and rub against each other. You heard it all through the house because of these pipes leading to the radiator. So this place isn't haunted? No, it rarely is. (..)2013 The Conjuring