Paint
Paint verb - To give a representation or account of in words.
Rub
Rub verb - To damage or diminish by continued friction.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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For a stretch in the WWE he was using glow in the dark paint, which tended to rub off on whoever he was wrestling or on then-love interest Trish Stratus.
Source: Wrestling / Jeff Hardy -
Near the end of Big Money Rustlas, before dying of a gunshot wound inflicted onto him by Sugar Wolf, the film's villain, Big Baby Chips, reveals to Sugar Wolf that he is actually his father, Grizzly Wolf, prompting Sugar Wolf to rub off his face paint to see if he was telling the truth.
Source: Luke, I Am Your Father -
Critical Existence Failure: If you so much as rub paint with another machine when you're at critically low health, your machine a splode.
Source: Video Game / F-Zero
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