'wipe out' definitions:
Definition of 'wipe out'
(from WordNet)
verb
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" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
verb
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]
verb
Eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out" [syn: wipe out, sweep away]
verb
Remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" [syn: erase, wipe out]
verb
Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" [syn: kill, obliterate, wipe out]
verb
Wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" [syn: cancel out, wipe out]
Synonyms of 'wipe out'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- abolish,
- abscind,
- absolve,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- annul,
- ban,
- bar,
- black out,
- blast,
- bleach,
- blot,
- blot out,
- bob,
- bowdlerize,
- bump off,
- call off,
- cancel,
- clean,
- clean out,
- clean up,
- cleanse,
- clear out,
- clip,
- complete,
- croak,
- crop,
- cross out,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- decimate,
- declare a moratorium,
- dele,
- delete,
- delouse,
- depurate,
- deracinate,
- deterge,
- dispose of,
- do in,
- dock,
- drop the curtain,
- dry-clean,
- dust,
- dust off,
- efface,
- eliminate,
- end off,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- finalize,
- finish,
- fix,
- fold up,
- freshen,
- get,
- get it over,
- get over with,
- get through with,
- give the business,
- give the quietus,
- gun down,
- hit,
- ice,
- isolate,
- kayo,
- kibosh,
- kill,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- KO,
- lay out,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- nullify,
- obliterate,
- off,
- pare,
- peel,
- perfect,
- pick out,
- polish off,
- prune,
- purge,
- purify,
- put paid to,
- raze,
- reform,
- remove,
- root out,
- root up,
- rub out,
- rule out,
- scavenge,
- scrag,
- scratch,
- scratch out,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- settle,
- shave,
- shear,
- shoot down,
- sponge,
- sponge out,
- spruce,
- stamp out,
- steam-clean,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- strip,
- strip off,
- sweep away,
- sweep out,
- sweeten,
- take care of,
- take off,
- take out,
- tidy,
- truncate,
- uproot,
- waste,
- whiten,
- wipe,
- wipe off,
- wipe up,
- write off,
- zap