| 单词 | to rub out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rub out to rub out 1. transitive. a. To efface, erase, or obliterate by rubbing; (now) spec. to erase (a pencil mark) with a rubber. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.to rub out old scores: see score n. 11b. ΘΚΠ 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 c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 231 (MED) So shulde men rubbe oute þe defautes of freris. 1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. H.2 Hys conscience be so cankerd that the ruste wyll not be rubbed oute. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 93 He rubbeth out the print of his bodie and steps. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 285 We may both vtterly rubbe out the olde blemishe. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 208 The pencil doth sometimes help the art, as well by rubbing out what was painted, as by painting. 1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 321 It's as possible for..the Leopard to rub out his Dapples, as for such a one..to doe good. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 41 Why should a Man rub out good things, without a solid Consideration for it? 1771 A. M. E. Cooke Hermit Converted i. iii. 22 You have left the black book of all your own sins behind you, with your deeds to the church to rub them out. 1779 B. Talbot New Art of Land Measuring 330 The pencil lines may be rubbed out with a bit of stale bread. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 245/1 Like one who rubs out an account. 1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 179 There wasn't a figure in the landscape. She was rubbed out of the drawing. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 65 Jon..made marks on the paper and rubbed them out and wrote them in again. 1959 Home Encycl. 156 Chrysanthemums should now be budded and side shoots rubbed out. 1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 9 I've just been having a kick around with the S2s on the blaze pitch, and I was noticing the line markings are pretty rubbed out. Is that right? said Rob. b. slang (chiefly U.S.). To wipe out, kill; to murder, assassinate. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 108 ‘He must have had rubs now and then, eh?’.. ‘Hard as they are, they don't seem likely to rub him out,’ retorted my cousin. a1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) i. 13 Five of our boys got rubbed out that time. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 303 You seem to have seen these poor fellows..just before they were rubbed out. 1936 E. Ambler Dark Frontier vii. 111 Rovzidski rubbed out by Red Gauntlet mob... Government fail to take action against slayers. 1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 220 The gangsters..had promised to rub him out if he didn't stop trying to hire away their star New Orleans side-men. 1995 Empire May 117/2 A manic depressive who hires a hitman to rub himself out. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > have recourse [verb (intransitive)] > get by in haphazard way to rub out1570 to muddle on1701 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1892/1 He thus in great care and vexation endured.., rubbyng out as well as hee could. 1587 R. Morton Let. 17 June in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 139 He is nott able to live havynge made harde shifte heare to rubbe owt this deare tyme. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. iv. 429 Let vs proue Conycatchers, Baudes, or any thing, so we may rub out. 1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 586 A man makes a shift to rub out an houre, and to haue somewhat stil to say. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 10 A poore widdow of Rome..rubbed out poorly, but yet honestly. 3. transitive. To extract (grain) from ears of wheat, etc., by rubbing. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > clean grain > by rubbing briteOE rub?a1513 to rub out1719 1579 J. Rogers Answere vnto Wicked & Infamous Libel sig. B.vii They goyng through a corne fielde pluckt of the eares & rubbed out the corns & eat. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. vii. 348 Mankind is negligent in improving his Observation, he never rubs the Corn out of the Ear. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 170 My Corn, which I always rubb'd out as soon as it was dry. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xix. 232 A number of blocks, projecting from the surface of the cylinder, beat or rub out the grains very effectually from the ears. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Brit, Brittle out, to rub grain out in the hand. 1910 J. E. Patterson Tillers of Soil i. 12 She proceeded to rub the corn out of its ear. 4. transitive. Printing. To spread out (ink). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [verb (transitive)] > temper ink bray1688 to rub out1787 brayer1824 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 336 He keeps the Rubb'd out Inck on the Inck-block of an equal Fatness.] 1787 Smith's Printer's Gram. (new ed.) 350 Before the Pressman goes to work, he rubs out his Ink. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 115 Rub out ink, to rub by means of the brayer the ink on the ink table previous to distribution. 1915 N. Underwood & T. V. Sullivan Chem. & Technol. Printing Inks 16 (caption) Muller and Slab, Showing Method of Rubbing Out Colours. 2004 R.-G. Rummonds 19th-cent. Printing Pract. & Iron Handpress xix. 529 The ink brayer..was a round wooden muller with a flat bottom. It was used to bray or rub out ink. ΚΠ 1792 J. Pearson Polit. Dict. 50 Rubbing-out, a cursed hawking, and spitting, and shuffling of the feet, at any Member the House does not like to hear speak. Sir Joseph Mawbey was rubbed out the last Parliament. 1876 Victoria (Austral.) Parl. Deb. 22 1493/1 The protectionists rubbed him out altogether, and he was reduced to his former position of a private member. < as lemmas |
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