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rubbed off on

rubbed off on is the simple past and past participle of rub off on.

Meaning of rub off on

Verb

rub off on (third-person singular simple present rubs off on, present participle rubbing off on, simple past and past participle rubbed off on)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive, usually, beliefs) To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure.
    • The hippie way of life seems to have rubbed off on him, as he's a flower power aficionado.

Questions about rubbed off on

What is rubbed off on the simple past and past participle of?
Rubbed off on is the simple past and past participle of rub off on.

Words near rubbed off on in the dictionary

  1. rubbed down
  2. rubbed elbows
  3. rubbed in
  4. rubbed it in
  5. rubbed off
  6. rubbed off on
  7. rubbed one off
  8. rubbed one out
  9. rubbed one's face with a brass candlestick
  10. rubbed one's hands
  11. rubbed one's hands together

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rubbed off on (page history and authors); rub off on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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