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wipe out

Dictionary definition · wipe out

verb

  1. use up (resources or materials)"this car consumes a lot of gas"
  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"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).