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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of rub out.
Examples
“Once everyone else cleared out down through the canyon, I held a solitary ceremony in which I distributed the cremated ashes of my hand in the accident site and rubbed out the visible remnants of the “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03” inscription on the southern wall, two days before my twenty-eighth birthday.”
“Dr Crocker rubbed out his drawing with the heel of his hand.”
“Hamilton Mabie once said, after his retirement from an active editorial position: “I am so happy that the time has come when I elect what I shall do,” which is true; but then he added: “I have rubbed out the word 'must' from my vocabulary,” which was not true.”
“He rubbed out 'collars and cuffs, rubbing the starch out from between the double thicknesses of linen so that there would be no blisters when it came to the ironing, and doing it at a pace that elicited Joe's praise.”
“Mr. Sanders took the slate, ciphered it up, found the answer correct, rubbed out his calculation, and returned the slate to William, saying, "Very well done, my son; but that's head-work, and it won't do to keep merchants 'accounts by the head; do it on the slate.”
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
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