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Noun wipe out has 2 senses
- destruction, demolition, wipeout - an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
--1 is a kind of ending, conclusion, finish
--1 has particulars:
- wipeout - a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)
--2 is a kind of spill, tumble, fall
Verb wipe out has 6 senses
- consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out - 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"
--1 is one way to spend, expend, drop
Sample sentence:
They wipe out more bread
- eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
--2 is one way to kill
Sample sentences:
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- wipe out, sweep away - eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
--3 is one way to destroy, destruct
Sample sentences:
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- erase, wipe out - remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
--4 is one way to kill
Sample sentences:
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- kill, obliterate, wipe out - mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
--5 is one way to take away, take out
Sample sentences:
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- cancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
--6 is one way to eliminate, get rid of, do away with
Sample sentence:
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