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RUB OUT

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• RUB OUT (verb)
The verb RUB OUT has 1 sense:

1. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

Familiarity information: RUB OUT used as a verb is very rare.

• RUB OUT (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

rub out; score out; erase; wipe off; efface

Context example:

Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!

Hypernyms (to "rub out" is one way to...):

cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)

"Rub out" entails doing...:

rub (move over something with pressure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rub out"):

sponge (erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard)

cut out; scratch out (strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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(English proverb)
"All dreams spin out from the same web."
(Native American proverb, Hopi)
"Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten."
(Nigerian proverb)
"Heaven helps those who help themselves."
(Corsican proverb)

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