rubbed out

past tense of rub out
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as in destroyed
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rubbed out
Verb
  • However, all three have been destroyed in separate accidents, the latest of which occurred on March 17, 2025, when a Heron Mk1 crashed into a helicopter while landing, totaling both aircraft but luckily not causing any casualties.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The video shows a couch completely destroyed, with stuffing pulled out and the frame exposed down to the springs.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That ornery cleric was Moqtada al-Sadr, the son of Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, a grand ayatollah assassinated almost certainly by Saddam’s order in 1999.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Israel has assassinated many of Hamas’ top military and political leadership.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Screwworm infestations caused massive losses in the cattle industry before the insect was officially eradicated in the United States in the 1960s.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The flies were declared eradicated from Panama in 2006.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To him, the field looked ruined — nothing like the stiff, proud stalks of wheat growing nearby.
    Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Our family has been ruined by Denise's lies of promising to end a year-long affair.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both Johnson’s and Pritzker’s comments came before Labor Day weekend in Chicago, when there were 58 people shot and eight murdered.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In Britain, for example, a man named Kyle Clifford murdered three members of the same family, all women, one of whom was his ex-girlfriend.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Royals’ defense erased a potential rally in the fourth inning after Cameron surrendered a double to Rengifo and walked first baseman Oswald Peraza.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • After a Horned Frog turnover, senior safety Bud Clark erased the mistake with a 25-yard interception returned for a score to put TCU in front 17-7.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Additionally, several existing dilapidated buildings on the site will be demolished and their concrete recycled and partly reused to realize the new structures.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Archaeologists believe that Ayscough's house was demolished after a fire destroyed it in the early 1800s – but its remains have only just been uncovered in new excavations.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The long sordid legal saga came to a somber end in January 2024 when Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed via nitrogen gas in Alabama after being convicted in a murder-for-hire plot.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Others incorrectly stated that the killers had executed their plan to perfection.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Rubbed out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubbed%20out. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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