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wipe out

wi·peout

uncommon

verb

1.

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.

kill in large numbers

  • “the plague wiped out an entire population”
3.

eliminate completely and without a trace

  • “The old values have been wiped out”
4.

remove from memory or existence

  • “The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915”
5.

mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

  • “kill these lines in the President”
6.

wipe out the effect of something

  • “The new tax effectively cancels out my raise”
  • “The”
  • “will cancel out the”
  • “on your record”

Origin

Deverbal from wipe out.

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