wipe out

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wipe out Definition

• (v) 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"
• (v) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
• (v) eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
• (v) remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
• (v) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President''s speech"
• (v) wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A'' will cancel out the `C'' on your record"

wipe out Synonyms

• annihilate
• cancel out
• carry off
• consume
• decimate
• deplete
• eat
• eat up
• eliminate
• eradicate
• erase
• exhaust
• extinguish
• kill
• obliterate
• run through
• sweep away
• use up
• wipe out