Definitions for rub out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. erase, rub out, score out, efface, wipe off(verb)

    remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

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

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. rub out(verb)ʌb

    erase

Wiktionary

  1. rub out(Verb)

    To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing.

  2. rub out(Verb)

    To get by; to live.

  3. rub out(Verb)

    To kill.


Translations for rub out

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

rub out(noun)

to remove (a mark, writing etc) with a rubber; to erase.

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