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rub out
vs
wipe off the face of the earth
rub out
verb
To delete or erase or remove (something) by rubbing.
To kill, especially to murder.
wipe off the face of the earth
How often have the words
rub out
and
wipe off the face of the earth
occurred in a corpus of books?
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