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rub off

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rub off
Verb
1. to remove or be removed by rubbing: rub the skins off the hazelnuts
2. to have an effect through close association: glamour can rub off on you by association
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Verb1.rub offrub off - wear away
abrade, abrase, corrade, rub down
excoriate, chafe - tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading; "This leash chafes the dog's neck"
wear away, wear off - diminish, as by friction; "Erosion wore away the surface"
rasp - scrape with a rasp
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The brown scales, too, had evidently undergone rigid discipline, in an unavailing effort to rub off the rust, which, alas
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
He wished to rub off the velvet of his horns against the cold stones of Kali's statue, and stamped his feet when he saw the man at the shrine.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Bad habits cling to us, however, with such persistency that I did mechanically pull out my handkerchief and begin to rub off the welcoming smudge, a thing I never would have dreamed of doing in the glorious old days; but an artful scent of violets clinging to the handkerchief brought me to my senses, and with a sudden impulse of scorn, the fine scorn for scent of every honest Backfisch, I rolled it up into a ball and flung it away into the bushes, where I daresay it is at this moment.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
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