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  • 31scrub something off — ˌscrub sthˈoff | scrub sth off sth derived to remove sth from the surface of an object by rubbing it hard with a brush, etc • This treatment involves scrubbing off the top layer of dead skin. Main entry: ↑scrubderived …

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  • 32scrub something off something — ˌscrub sthˈoff | scrub sth off sth derived to remove sth from the surface of an object by rubbing it hard with a brush, etc • This treatment involves scrubbing off the top layer of dead skin. Main entry: ↑scrubderived …

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  • 33rub off — 1) remove or be removed by rubbing, erase She rubbed off the writing on the whiteboard. 2) pass to someone nearby, transmit to someone Her bad habit of talking all the time has rubbed off on her husband as well …

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  • 34ˌrub (sth) ˈoff — phrasal verb if you rub something off, or if it rubs off, you remove it by rubbing it …

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  • 35rub off —    to masturbate    Usually of a male. Also as rub up, or rub yourself.     Lucy was standing between his legs and rubbing him up. (Sanders, 1982)     ... he rubbed himself and the orgasm came. (F. Harris, 1925)    To rub someone up the wrong way …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 36stringed instrument — a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow: The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments. * * * Any musical instrument that produces sound by the… …

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  • 37KIPPER — (Heb. כִּפֵּר). Etymology The customary rendering of kipper is to atone for, or expiate but in most cases this is, at best, imprecise. In poetry its parallel synonym is maḥah ( to wipe away ; Jer. 18:23), or hesir ( to remove ; Isa. 27:9, cf. the …

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  • 38abrasion — n. Friction, attrition, rubbing, disintegration, wearing away, wearing off, rubbing off, rubbing down, wearing down. See Confrication …

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  • 39(Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves — Infobox Album | Name = (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves Type = Album Artist = Hawksley Workman Released = 2001 Recorded = ? Genre = Indie rock Length = ??:?? Label = Universal Music Canada Producer = Hawksley Workman Reviews = Last album …

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  • 40defrication — defriˈcation rare. [ad. L. dēfricātiōn em, n. of action f. L. dēfricāre to rub off, rub down.] Rubbing, rubbing off. in Bailey vol. II; and in some mod. Dicts …

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