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Wipe out

verb

Use up (resources or materials). Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up. "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

Kill in large numbers. Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish.

Eliminate completely and without a trace. Synonym: sweep away.

Remove from memory or existence. Synonym: erase.

Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase. Synonyms: kill, obliterate.

Wipe out the effect of something. Synonym: cancel out. "The 'A' will cancel out the 'C' on your record"

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"Wipe out" Quotes from Famous Books

... their forts, burnt their dwellings, compelling them to seek safety for their families by flight, was so great an insult that their most violent passions were aroused, and only the blood of all the Kay tribe could wipe out the disgrace they had incurred. It was indeed wonderful that these Chinese should imagine for a moment that they could remain rulers in a country whose inhabitants regarded them as the natural hewers of wood and drawers of water to the community; but no doubt they ...

— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... occupy itself with any matter; the Prussian officials had their noses and their hands in everything. In spite of the three Silesian wars the province grew to be far more prosperous than it had been under the Empire. Up to this time a hundred years had not been sufficient to wipe out the visible traces of the Thirty Years' War. The people remembered well how in the cities the heaps of rubbish from the time of the Swedish invasions had lain about, and between the remaining houses ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... be emptied into the mortar, the bag well shaken and beaten over the lee-side to remove dust and fine grains of powder, and the bag placed in the rear to wipe out the mortar-chamber after ...

— Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. - 1866. Fourth edition. • Bureau of Ordnance, USN

... of new-green-one worshippers (quite unwittingly). It needed only the corporeal presence of his novel deity to wipe out the feelings of distrust which ...

— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace

... the sergeant stubbornly; "but you're better away. He's right off his head, and abusing everybody. If you go he'll say things to you that will upset you more than three hours' sleep will wipe out." ...

— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn

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