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RUB OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Example:
Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
Synonyms:
efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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
