wipe out

wipe out
verb
1. kill in large numbers (Freq. 1)
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the plague wiped out an entire population

• Syn: ↑eliminate, ↑annihilate, ↑extinguish, ↑eradicate, ↑decimate, ↑carry off
• Derivationally related forms: ↑decimation (for: ↑decimate), ↑wipeout, ↑extinction (for: ↑extinguish), ↑annihilative (for: ↑annihilate), ↑annihilation (for: ↑annihilate), ↑annihilator (for: ↑annihilate)
• Hypernyms: ↑kill
• Verb Group: ↑decimate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

2. use up (resources or materials) (Freq. 1)
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this car consumes a lot of gas

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We exhausted our savings

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They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

• Syn:
↑consume, ↑eat up, ↑use up, ↑eat, ↑deplete, ↑exhaust, ↑run through
• Derivationally related forms: ↑exhaustion (for: ↑exhaust), ↑depletion (for: ↑deplete), ↑consumptive (for: ↑consume), ↑consumable (for: ↑consume)
• Hypernyms: ↑spend, ↑expend, ↑drop
• Hyponyms:
↑run out, ↑drain, ↑indulge, ↑luxuriate, ↑burn off, ↑burn, ↑burn up, ↑spend, ↑run down, ↑exhaust, ↑play out, ↑sap, ↑tire
• Verb Group: ↑take, ↑occupy, ↑use up
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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Somebody ——s PP

 (for: ↑eat)
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They wipe out more bread

3. remove from memory or existence
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The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915

• Syn: ↑erase
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wipeout, ↑erasure (for: ↑erase)
• Hypernyms: ↑kill
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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Something ——s something

4. wipe out the effect of something
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The new tax effectively cancels out my raise

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The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record

• Syn: ↑cancel out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wipeout
• Hypernyms: ↑extinguish, ↑eliminate, ↑get rid of, ↑do away with
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s something

5. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
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kill these lines in the President's speech

• Syn: ↑kill, ↑obliterate
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wipeout, ↑obliterable (for: ↑obliterate), ↑obliteration (for: ↑obliterate)
• Hypernyms: ↑take away, ↑take out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

6. eliminate completely and without a trace
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The old values have been wiped out

• Syn: ↑sweep away
• Derivationally related forms: ↑wipeout
• Hypernyms: ↑destroy, ↑destruct
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s somebody

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Something ——s something

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informal fall over or off a vehicle
■ be capsized by a wave while surfing

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wipe out [phrasal verb]
1 US, informal : to fall down violently especially when riding a bicycle, surfing, skiing, etc.

The cyclist wiped out coming around the curve.

— see also ↑wipeout
2 wipe (someone or something) out or wipe out (someone or something) : to kill or destroy (someone or something) completely

Drought wiped out our crops this year.

Doctors think they can wipe out the disease.

One bad investment could wipe out your life savings.

3 wipe (someone) out : to make (someone) very tired

That game completely wiped me out.

— see also ↑wiped out
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Main Entry: ↑wipe

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ˌwipe ˈout derived
(informal) to fall over, especially when you are doing a sport such as ↑skiing or ↑surfing

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She wiped out at the third gate in the slalom race.

Main entry: ↑wipederived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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