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rubbing outverbpresent participle of rub out to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness ofaerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery annihilating, creaming, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, extinguishing, nuking, pulling down, pulverizing, razing, ruining, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), vaporizing, wasting, wracking, wrecking 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, vitiatingeroding, scouring, sweeping (away), washing out, wearing (away)dilapidating, disassembling, dismantling, gutting, taking down, unbuilding, undoing, unmakingblotting out, effacing, eradicating, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, removing, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), wiping outdespoiling, havocking, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sacking, trampling, trashing, vandalizingassassinating, butchering, cutting down, dispatching, executing, felling, killing, killing off, massacring, mowing (down), murdering, slaughtering, slaying, taking out, zapping building, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising, rearing, setting up doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, reconditioning, repairing, revampingcreating, inventingassembling, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, molding, producing, shapingbringing about, constituting, establishing, fathering, founding, instituting, organizingconserving, preserving, protecting, savingrebuilding, reconstructing, remodeling, renovating, restoring to put to death deliberatelyan elaborate setup to rub out rival mobsters 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) blowing away, shooting, shooting downblotting out, carrying off, claiming, cutting down, destroying, felling, killing, smiting, zappingbutchering, massacring, mowing (down), slaughteringannihilating, eliminating, eradicating, exterminating, wiping out doing away with animating, raising, restoring, resurrecting, resuscitating, reviving to destroy all traces ofa promise to rub out the city's drug trade abolishing, annihilating, blacking out, blotting out, canceling(or cancelling), cleaning (up), effacing, eradicating, erasing, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, rooting (out), snuffing (out), stamping (out), sweeping (away), wiping out decimating, demolishing, destroying, devastating, ravagingdismantling, flattening, mowing (down), razing, tearing downruining, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wreckingblasting, blowing up, dashing, dynamiting, smashingatomizing, consuming, devouring, dissolving, fragmenting, powdering, pulverizing, shattering, splinteringdooming, finishing, killing, killing off, terminating, zappingcanceling(or cancelling), cutting, discarding, ditching, ejecting, excising, expelling, jettisoning, ousting, throwing out conserving, preserving, protecting, savingbuilding, constructing, creating, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, shapingfixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renewing, renovating, repairing, restoring, revamping |