rub out

Synonyymisanakirja

rub out

hangata, hinkata, pyyhkiä, pyyhkiä sienellä, puhdistaa sienellä, poistaa, pyyhkiä pois, yliviivata.

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rub out rimmaa näiden kanssa:

out, knock-out, ragoût, burnout, passepartout, stout, layout...

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Englannin sanakirja

rub out englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing.

The teacher wanted to rub out the chalk marks on the blackboard.

2. puhekieltä To get by; to live.

3. (RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), I.54:

The first will understand but little of them, the latter over much; they might perhaps live and rub out in the middle region.

4. puhekieltä To kill, especially to murder.

5. 1942, (w), http://jameshilston.com/pages/reading/catbird_seat.htm The Catbird Seat:

It was just a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows.

6. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

'Mr Grimaldi,' fills in Smoke, 'what I believe Fay has too much tact to spit out and say is this: the Rey woman might be imagining we rubbed out Dr Sixsmith.'

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