How to use rubout in a sentence
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.
Feminist Flagellant: Liz Jones’s Surprising Brand of Tell-All | Emma Garman | July 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDo not wet the pencil, as the lines afterwards made with it are very difficult to rub out.
An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design | David Allan LowThey were cheering him because they expected him to rub out the word "England."
The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon | Newell Dwight HillisBut, as dear Scott's characters say, "Let that fly stick in the wa'—when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out."
George Eliot's Life, Vol. III (of 3) | George EliotStretch them on a bosom-board, and with a damp cloth rub out all the wrinkles.
Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians | William K. David
Age can never forget its youth; nor can one easily rub out dark lines traced in his character in its forming state.
Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women | George Sumner Weaver
British Dictionary definitions for rub out
to remove or be removed with a rubber
US slang to murder
Australian rules football to suspend (a player)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with rubout
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]
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