1. wipe out - Noun
2. wipe out - Verb
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: WordNetwipe-out
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