Rub out
Rub out verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
Usage example: aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- liquidate and rub out
- liquidate and remove
- eliminate and rub out
- eliminate and remove
- murder and rub out
- murder and remove
- exterminate and rub out
- exterminate and remove
- get rid of and rub out
- get rid of and remove
- abolish and rub out
- abolish and remove
- do away with and rub out
- do away with and remove
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Remove and Rub out. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rub_out/remove
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