wipe off

verb

1. remove by wiping (Freq. 3)

• Syn: ↑wipe away

• Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw

• Hyponyms: ↑deterge

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

2. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

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Please erase the formula on the blackboard—it is wrong!

• Syn: ↑erase, ↑rub out, ↑score out, ↑efface

• Derivationally related forms: ↑erasure (for: ↑erase), ↑eraser (for: ↑erase)

• Hypernyms: ↑delete, ↑cancel

• Hyponyms: ↑sponge, ↑scratch out, ↑cut out

• Entailment: ↑rub

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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noun

see wipe II, 4

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ˌwipe ˈoff [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they wipe off he/she/it wipes off present participle wiping off past tense wiped off past participle wiped off] phrasal verb

to reduce the value of something by a large amount

Nearly $20 billion was wiped off shares yesterday.

Thesaurus: setting, controlling and changing prices and costs_hyponym prices and costs_synonym

Main entry: wipe

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wipe off [phrasal verb]

1 wipe (someone or something) off or wipe off (someone or something) : to clean (someone or something) by using a towel, your hand, etc.

I wiped off the baby and took him out of the high chair.

She wiped the counters off.

2 wipe (something) off or wipe off (something) : to remove (something) by rubbing

I wiped the food off the baby's face.

She wiped off the oil from the counter.

— often used figuratively in British English

More than a billion pounds have been wiped off share prices. [=the value of share prices has been reduced by more than a billion pounds]

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Main Entry: ↑wipe