Thesaurus / rub out
FEEDBACKHow to use rub out in a sentence
And he was gone, and out of sight on the swift galloping Benito, before Father Gaspara bethought himself.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONMost of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNELiszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYThe most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSSquinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUM"There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANBut Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSSol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENAnd that was that if he and his wife were to ever live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXBefore he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLWORDS RELATED TO RUB OUT
- annihilate
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- crucify
- dispatch
- do away with
- do in
- drown
- dump
- electrocute
- eradicate
- erase
- execute
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
- garrote
- get
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- immolate
- liquidate
- lynch
- massacre
- murder
- neutralize
- obliterate
- off
- poison
- polish off
- put away
- put to death
- rub out
- sacrifice
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- strangle
- suffocate
- waste
- wipe out
- zap
- abolish
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- behead
- blot out
- bump off
- butcher
- chill
- cool
- decapitate
- defeat
- destroy
- dispatch
- do in
- drub
- electrocute
- eliminate
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- extinguish
- finish
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- hang
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- knife
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- liquidate
- lynch
- mangle
- mar
- massacre
- misuse
- off
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- ruin
- shoot
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- smother
- snuff
- spoil
- strangle
- take a life
- take for a ride
- take out
- thrash
- waste
- KO
- X out
- annihilate
- ax
- black out
- blot out
- blue pencil
- bog
- cancel
- cover
- cut
- defeat
- delete
- do in
- efface
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- erase
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- level
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- mark out
- nix
- obscure
- off
- ravage
- root out
- rub off
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- scratch
- scrub
- shoot down
- sink
- smash
- squash
- take apart
- take out
- torpedo
- total
- trash
- wash out
- waste
- wipe off face of earth
- wipe out
- zap
- KOS
- X-outs
- annihilates
- axes
- black out
- blot out
- blue pencil
- bogs
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- covers
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- does in
- effaces
- eliminates
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- extirpates
- finishes
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- kills
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- levels
- liquidates
- marks out
- nixes
- obscures
- offs
- ravages
- roots out
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- rubs out
- scratches
- scrubs
- shoots down
- sinks
- smashes
- squashes
- takes apart
- takes out
- torpedo
- totals
- trashes
- washes out
- wastes
- wipes off face of earth
- wipes out
- zaps
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