wipe up

wipe up
verb
to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop (Freq. 1)
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Mop the hallway now

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He mopped her forehead with a towel

Syn: ↑mop up, ↑mop
Derivationally related forms: ↑mop (for: ↑mop), ↑mopper (for: ↑mop), ↑mopping (for: ↑mop)
Hypernyms:
absorb, ↑suck, ↑imbibe, ↑soak up, ↑sop up, ↑suck up, ↑draw, ↑take in, ↑take up
Hyponyms: ↑swab, ↑swob, ↑sponge
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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transitive verb
: to make clean by or as if by wiping : mop up, defeat, destroy

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ˌwipe ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they wipe up he/she/it wipes up present participle wiping up past tense wiped up past participle wiped up] phrasal verb
to remove a liquid from a surface using a cloth
Thesaurus: to make someone or something wet or drysynonym to remove or move liquidhyponym to make things cleaner or tidiersynonym
Main entry: wipe

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wipe up [phrasal verb]
wipe (something) up or wipe up (something) : to use a cloth to remove (something) from a surface

Will you wipe up that spill?

I wiped the milk up off the floor.

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