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Wipe out Common

Wipe out has 7 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
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's speech"

6

wipe out the effect of something

"The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"

"The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"

7

To destroy (especially, a large number of people or things); to obliterate.

Example Sentences
"this car consumes a lot of gas" verb
"We exhausted our savings" verb
"They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" verb
"the plague wiped out an entire population" verb
"The old values have been wiped out" verb
"The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" verb
"kill these lines in the President's speech" verb
"The new tax effectively cancels out my raise" verb
"The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
spend kill destroy take away extinguish
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
run out drain indulge burn off spend run down
Rhyming Words
out tout yout hout gout pout aout dout lout bout kout rout fout scout grout smout chout plout x out trout
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