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Rub out

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser). transitive

    "The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard."

  2. 2
    remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing wordnet
  3. 3
    To get by; to live. obsolete

    "The first will understand but little of them, the latter over much; they might perhaps live and rub out in the middle region."

  4. 4
    To kill, especially to murder. slang, transitive

    "It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows."

  5. 5
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, out.

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