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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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Idioms and Phrases

Obliterate or erase by, or as if by, rubbing. For example, Bill was so busy rubbing out the old markings that he forgot to put in new ones . [Mid-1600s]

Murder, kill, as in They threatened to rub him out if he didn't pay up . [ Slang ; mid-1800s]

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Ms Hamilton stated he later took her book, rubbed out her name and wrote his instead before storing it in a cupboard containing his own documents and books.

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He fidgets endlessly with his hands as if trying to rub out the scars.

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But I felt that her story had been subsumed had been rubbed out, she'd been made invisible by the official version.

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After the war, they saw no need to rub out their past.

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Neel didn’t bother to rub out their footprints as they climbed the lower half of the trail that sloped up the bank.

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rubout rubric

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