rub off
Wear away slowly
To rub off is to be transferred through contact or proximity.
Ink rubs off on your hands, and personality traits rub off on people you spend time with: Her optimism eventually rubbed off on me.
The transfer is usually gradual and unintentional.
To rub off on someone is the standard construction for this figurative sense.
Shallow surface wound
abrasion
Shallow surface wound
scuff · grind · buff · polish · sand · erode · fade · peel · flake · smudge
scrub
Clean by rubbing hard
wash · rinse · sponge · brush · polish · buff · scour · soap · detergent · stain
influence
Power to affect others
adopt · catch · imitate · emulate · mirror · copy · learn · assimilate · internalize · osmosis
rub offresist
Oppose or refuse compliance
bounce off · repel · hold firm · keep to oneself · go in one ear and out the other
off, rub, rubber, rubs, rubbers, rub out, rubbings, rubbed off