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(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
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(transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
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(transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
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(obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
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(ambitransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
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(transitive, computing) To erase.
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(transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
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(figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
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(transitive) To deperm (a ship).
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(video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) To hit or strike.