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Wipe out   /waɪp aʊt/   Listen
Wipe out

verb
1.
Use up (resources or materials).  Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up.  "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
2.
Kill in large numbers.  Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish.
3.
Eliminate completely and without a trace.  Synonym: sweep away.
4.
Remove from memory or existence.  Synonym: erase.
5.
Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase.  Synonyms: kill, obliterate.
6.
Wipe out the effect of something.  Synonym: cancel out.  "The 'A' will cancel out the 'C' on your record"






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"Wipe out" Quotes from Famous Books



... are; that kind of thing is thrown away on me. You're going to listen for a few minutes and afterward you're going to do what I tell you. To begin with—why, after you'd opened it, didn't you wipe out all trace of the cache on the reach below the ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss

... bravery of men who already felt the halters settling round their necks; but whoever heard of British tars yielding an enemy's deck when once their feet were firmly planted upon it? Besides, almost every individual man among us felt that we had a long score of disappointments and floutings to wipe out, and steadily but irresistibly we drove the pirates into the waist of their ship, where, huddled closely together, it was impossible for them to use their arms effectively. Finally, Smellie and Madera, after several unsuccessful efforts to get at each ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood

... never thought of himself as an Englishman.) He loathed Richard Luttrell; he muttered curses upon him as he lay on the earth, with every bone aching from his cousin's blows; he wished that he could wipe out the memory of the affront in Richard's blood. Richard would laugh at a challenge; a duel was not the English method of settling quarrels. "I will punish him in another way; it is a vendetta!" said Hugo to himself, choking down his ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... it, daddy dear. I have been very bad and cruel to you both. But I have something to wipe out, and I shall never rest content until I have done what I can to atone for my ...
— The Unknown Wrestler • H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

... trouble was that Earth couldn't counterattack. Their ships were still out-classed by those of the Rats. And the Rats, their racial pride badly stung, were determined to wipe out Man, to erase the stain on their honor wherever Man could be found. Somehow, some ...
— The Measure of a Man • Randall Garrett


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