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wipe out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe outverb

    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. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offverb

    kill in large numbers

    "the plague wiped out an entire population"

  3. wipe out, sweep awayverb

    eliminate completely and without a trace

    "The old values have been wiped out"

  4. erase, wipe outverb

    remove from memory or existence

    "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"

  5. kill, obliterate, wipe outverb

    mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

    "kill these lines in the President's speech"

  6. cancel out, wipe outverb

    wipe out the effect of something

    "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"

Wiktionary

  1. wipe outverb

    To destroy (a large number of people or things); to obliterate.

  2. wipe outverb

    To physically erase something written.

  3. wipe outverb

    To crash, fall over (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding etc.)

ChatGPT

  1. wipe out

    Wipe out generally means to completely remove, destroy, or eradicate something. It can be used in various contexts such as removing data from a device, destroying a population of animals or plants, or depleting resources. It can also refer to a severe fall or failure, especially in sports.

Wikidata

  1. Wipe Out

    "Wipe Out" is an instrumental song written by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller and Ron Wilson. The tune was first performed and recorded by The Surfaris, who were elevated to international status with the release of the "Surfer Joe" and "Wipe Out" single in 1963. The song – both the Surfaris' version as well as cover versions – has been featured in over 20 films and television series since 1964, appearing at least once a decade. First heard in Kenneth Anger's short Scorpio Rising, its most recent appearance was in Dominic Sena's 2009 thriller, Whiteout. The term 'wipeout' refers to a fall from a surfboard, especially one that looks painful.

Suggested Resources

  1. wipe out

    Read the full text of the Wipe Out poem by Mario William Vitale on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wipe out in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wipe out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of wipe out in a Sentence

  1. Mike Pence:

    In less than a year, the Biden-Harris administration has unleashed a tidal wave of left-wing policies that threaten to wipe out the progress Fox Friends have made.

  2. Bob Peterson:

    There are more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes in the world, most of which do not feed on people, it is not practical or desirable -- indeed it's not even possible -- to wipe out all populations of all mosquito species. No one is seriously contemplating that.

  3. Sara Lewis:

    There is a danger in just the presence of those people, you could actually wipe out the population that is so attractive.

  4. Bill Maher:

    Doesn't it behoove the people who rejected the half a loaf and continue to attack … Hamas's charter says they just want to wipe out The Israelis. Their negotiation position is' You all die,' the two-state solution has been on the table a number of times. There could be an Arab capital in East Jerusalem now if Yasser Arafat had accepted that in 2003. He did not.

  5. Biden TransitionBiden:

    This legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials and one group of states to try to get the Supreme Court to wipe out the votes of more than 20 million Americans in other states and to hand the presidency to a candidate who lost the Electoral College, lost the popular vote and lost each and every one of the states whose votes they were trying to reverse. It's a position so extreme, we've never seen it before.


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  • تمحوArabic
  • vymazatCzech
  • auswischen, auslöschen, ausradieren, vernichtenGerman
  • εξαλείφωGreek
  • aniquilarSpanish
  • kaatua, pyyhkiä, tuhota, pyyhkäistä poisFinnish
  • effacer, anéantirFrench
  • annientare, spazzare via, cancellare dalla terra, eliminare, obliterare, cancellareItalian
  • წაშლა, განადგურებაGeorgian
  • 무찌르다Korean
  • له‌ناوبردنKurdish
  • aniquilar, cair, apagarPortuguese
  • уничто́жить, стере́ть, истреби́ть, стира́ть, уничтожа́ть, истребля́тьRussian
  • sravniti sa zemljom, izbrisatiSerbo-Croatian
  • sudda bort, utplåna, radera, vurpa, sudda, utrota, välta, sudda utSwedish
  • துடைத்து எடுTamil

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