WIPE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wipe out mean? 

• WIPE OUT (verb)
  The verb WIPE OUT has 6 senses:

1. use up (resources or materials)

2. kill in large numbers

3. eliminate completely and without a trace

4. remove from memory or existence

5. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

6. wipe out the effect of something

  Familiarity information: WIPE OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIPE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use up (resources or materials)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out

Context example:

They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Verb group:

occupy; take; use up (require (time or space))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wipe out"):

run out (exhaust the supply of)

drain (deplete of resources)

indulge; luxuriate (enjoy to excess)

burn; burn off; burn up (use up (energy))

spend (spend completely)

exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire (deplete)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They wipe out more bread

Sense 2

Meaning:

Kill in large numbers

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

annihilate; carry off; decimate; eliminate; eradicate; extinguish; wipe out

Context example:

the plague wiped out an entire population

Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Verb group:

decimate (kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

wipeout (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Eliminate completely and without a trace

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

sweep away; wipe out

Context example:

The old values have been wiped out

Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):

destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

wipeout (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Remove from memory or existence

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

erase; wipe out

Context example:

The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915

Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

wipeout (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

kill; obliterate; wipe out

Context example:

kill these lines in the President's speech

Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):

take away; take out (take out or remove)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

wipeout (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Wipe out the effect of something

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

cancel out; wipe out

Context example:

The 'A' will cancel out the 'C' on your record

Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

wipeout (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)

 Context examples 

The researchers gave the mice an antibiotic cocktail designed to wipe out a broad spectrum of bacteria in the gut and by rearing them in a germ-free environment.

(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)

"I care for nothing now," he answered hotly, "except to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)