wipe out

Speech parts

1. wipe out - Noun

2. wipe out - Verb

Meaning

kill in large numbers

wipe out the effect of something

use up (resources or materials)

remove from memory or existence

mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

eliminate completely and without a trace

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

wipe-out

Synonyms

kill eliminate consume eradicate erase extinguish annihilate deplete obliterate decimate use up carry off eat up butcher slay
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Antonyms

mark amnesty create record etch write
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Hypernyms

kill drop destroy spend eliminate extinguish

Hyponyms

sap spend burn exhaust drain tire

Examples

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. Bob Woodward

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. Cordell Hull

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. Ernest Hemingway

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now. Marcus Aurelius

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. Rudyard Kipling

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. John Boyd Orr

Close letter words and terms

wipe off face of earth wipe off the face of the earth wipe oneself wipe slate clean wipe the floor with wipe the floor with someone