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rub out
verb
- to remove or be removed with a rubber
- slang.to murder
- Australian rules football to suspend (a player)
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Example Sentences
I wish I could rub out my life,” she laments in the opening chapter, “twiddling knobs as on an Etch A Sketch, and start again.
Do not wet the pencil, as the lines afterwards made with it are very difficult to rub out.
They were cheering him because they expected him to rub out the word "England."
But, as dear Scott's characters say, "Let that fly stick in the wa'—when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out."
Stretch them on a bosom-board, and with a damp cloth rub out all the wrinkles.
Age can never forget its youth; nor can one easily rub out dark lines traced in his character in its forming state.
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