1. (verb) consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
use up (resources or materials)
"this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
2. (verb) eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
3. (verb) wipe out, sweep away
eliminate completely and without a trace
"The old values have been wiped out"
4. (verb) erase, wipe out
remove from memory or existence
"The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
5. (verb) kill, obliterate, wipe out
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President's speech"
6. (verb) cancel out, wipe out
wipe out the effect of something
"The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
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