rubbing out (Meaning)
rubbing out
kill, murder, to obliterate by or as if by rubbing, to destroy completely, to remove by or as if by erasing
Synonyms & Antonyms of rubbing out
Synonyms:
- crushing
- winning (against)
- totaling
- wearing (away)
- eroding
- wiping out
- crippling
- annihilating
- vaporizing
- wracking
- breaking
- washing out
- sweeping (away)
- prevailing (over)
- ravaging
- removing
- decimating
- creaming
- wasting
- damaging
- extinguishing
- totalling
- razing
- triumphing (over)
- marring
- blasting
- pulverizing
- dismantling
- killing
- blowing up
- defeating
Antonyms:
Synonyms:
- extirpating
- plundering
- beating
- gutting
- overmatching
- dynamiting
- mowing (down)
- nuking
- executing
- mangling
- desolating
- drubbing
- trampling
- deteriorating
- injuring
- taking down
- exterminating
- mutilating
- scouring
- vitiating
- snuffing (out)
- dissolving
- disassembling
- harming
- cutting down
- looting
- mastering
- obliterating
- dispatching
- walloping
- expunging
- slaughtering
- undoing
- besting
- pillaging
- scotching
- liquidating
- killing off
- overbearing
- rooting (out)
- licking
- whipping
- trouncing
- blotting out
- assassinating
- sacking
- murdering
- defacing
- trimming
- effacing
- clobbering
- slaying
- stamping (out)
- routing
- impairing
- surmounting
- subduing
- disintegrating
- thrashing
- conquering
- disfiguring
- vandalizing
- taking out
- havocking
- spoiling
- eradicating
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word rubbing out
kill, murder, to obliterate by or as if by rubbing, to destroy completely, to remove by or as if by erasing
demolishing, overcoming, wrecking, tearing down, ruining, shattering, pulling down,destroying, doing in, smashing
erecting, building, putting up, constructing, raising, creating,setting up, making, fixing, forming
The students eagerly rubbed out their initial answers to make way for the corrected ones.
Emily spent hours rubbing out the smudges on her artwork until it was pristine.
The janitor relentlessly rubbed out the graffiti that marred the school walls.
The detective carefully rubbed out the faint fingerprint on the glass to enhance its visibility.
