rub out
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rub out
verb rubs out · rubbing out · rubbed out
- To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser). The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.
- To get by; to live. The first will understand but little of them, the latter over much; they might perhaps live and rub out in the middle region.
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To kill, especially to murder.
It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows.
Similar: annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, out.
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verb delete or erase by rubbing
| Français | effacer |
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| Deutsch | ausradieren, wegwischen |
| Ελληνικά | σβήνω svíno |
verb kill
| Ελληνικά | σβήνω svíno |
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