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present participle of rub out
Synonyms & Antonyms of rubbing out
1
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
- aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery
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Words Related to rubbing out
- beating,
- besting,
- clobbering,
- conquering,
- crushing,
- defeating,
- drubbing,
- licking,
- mastering,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overmatching,
- prevailing (over),
- routing,
- scotching,
- skunking,
- subduing,
- surmounting,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- triumphing (over),
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- whipping,
- winning (against)
- blasting,
- blowing up,
- breaking,
- crippling,
- damaging,
- defacing,
- deteriorating,
- disfiguring,
- disintegrating,
- dissolving,
- dynamiting,
- harming,
- impairing,
- injuring,
- mangling,
- marring,
- mutilating,
- spoiling,
- vitiating
- blotting out,
- effacing,
- eradicating,
- expunging,
- exterminating,
- extirpating,
- liquidating,
- obliterating,
- removing,
- rooting (out),
- snuffing (out),
- stamping (out),
- wiping out
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2
to put to death deliberately
- an elaborate setup to rub out rival mobsters
Synonyms for rubbing out
- assassinating,
- bumping off,
- croaking
- [slang],
- dispatching,
- doing in,
- executing,
- getting,
- icing
- [slang],
- knocking off,
- liquidating,
- murdering,
- neutralizing,
- offing
- [slang],
- putting away,
- slaying,
- snuffing,
- taking out,
- terminating,
- whacking
- [slang]
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3
to destroy all traces of
- a promise to rub out the city's drug trade
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