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单词 to rub off
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to rub off
to rub off
1. transitive. To remove by rubbing. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
strikec1386
to rub offa1425
cancelc1440
streakc1440
cross1483
outstrike1487
line1530
to strike out1530
dash1549
to strike off1597
cancellate1664
damask1673
score1687
to run through1817
overscore1834
blue-pencil1883
stroke1885
caviar1890
to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
ex1935
x1942
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by scraping
screpec725
scrape1303
to rub offa1425
raze1429
race?a1439
rash1650
derade1657
erade1657
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by rubbing
planec1350
to rub outc1400
to rub offa1425
sponge1548
wipe1564
spongea1636
sponge1720
smear1838
a1425 (a1396) R. Maidstone Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms (BL Add. 39574) 814 in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 53 (MED) Ihesu..rubbe of þe rust, Or I be brouȝt to..dust.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xix. 47 Then they discouer themselues, going vnto the trees to fray their heads, and to rub of the veluet.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 193 His Enemie..Hasts to some Tree..whearon To..rub-off his detested zone.
1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden i. xi. 38 When he puts a bud in any place where you would not haue him, rub it off with your finger.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 4 His Rythmes, which we here set down, with all the rust thereof, without rubbing it off.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Mar. (1948) I. 222 My sore shin itched, and I forgot what it was, and rubbed off the s—b, and blood came.
1779 Mirror No. 3 Without any danger of this colouring being rubbed off.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 136 We to our Neighbours and our Equals come, And rub off Pride that Man contracts at home.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xiii Modern languages have rubbed off this inferential and adversative form.
1947 Nucleonics Dec. 49/2 Vigorous rubbing with soft paper like Kleenex will rub it off, as evidenced by reduction in friction and darkening of the Kleenex which then shows activity.
1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 56 Two years in America struggling to pay his way through university had rubbed off some of his pride.
1989 T. Parks Family Planning 60 She..walked to the window and rubbed off condensation with a towel.
2. intransitive. figurative. Of an event or achievement: to pass off, be completed (sometimes with an indication of the degree of success). Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (intransitive)] > be carried out
to take placea1464
stand1488
to pass off1752
to rub off1784
to come off1826
1784 F. Burney Diary 17 Jan. (1842) II. 304 The evening rubbed on and rubbed off till it began to break up.
1818 W. Scott Let. 14 Jan. (1933) V. 50 The book is very well liked here and has rubd off in great stile.
3. intransitive. figurative. Of a quality, etc.: to have an effect (on a person) through close or continued contact; to be transmitted.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > infectious quality of emotion > infect with emotion [phrase]
to rub off1869
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxxii. 419 Dear Aunty, I hope some of her virtues will rub off on to me by contact.
1892 H. James Lesson of Master 186 A certain feeling for letters must have rubbed off on him from the mere handling of his master's books, which he was always carrying to and fro.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself v. 463 He spent years hobnobbing with gentlemanly shits and half-ass operators and some of it had to rub off on him.
1971 Times 9 Sept. 3/2 One hopes that something of their Christian charity and principles would rub off.
1989 A. Stevenson Bitter Fame v. 116 Her anxiety rubbed off on Ted, though he did his best to reassure her.
2005 Elle Girl (U.K. ed.) Feb. 54/2 When someone's that positive, it can't help but rub off on you.
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