rub out

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing, especially with a rubber (eraser). transitive
    — The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.
  2. To get by; to live. obsolete
    — The first will understand but little of them, the latter over much; they might perhaps live and rub out in the middle region.
  3. To kill, especially to murder. slang,transitive
    — It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, out.

词形变化

rubs out present,singular,third-person rubbing out participle,present rubbed out participle,past rubbed out past
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