Dictionary definition · wipe out
verb
- use up (resources or materials)"this car consumes a lot of gas"
- kill in large numbers"the plague wiped out an entire population"
- eliminate completely and without a trace"The old values have been wiped out"
- remove from memory or existence"The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase"kill these lines in the President's speech"
- wipe out the effect of something"The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).