Wipe Out

Definition: Wipe Out

Wipe Out

Verb

1. Use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week".

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, as of writings; "kill these lines in the President's speech".

6. Wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise".

7. Remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Wipe Out

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Obliteration

Verb: efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.

Crosswords: Wipe Out

Oh, he'll wipe out the world. (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers)

Happily, it'd just wipe out you and me. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

We gotta stop our guys from destroying the thing that could wipe out the galaxy, and we gotta to straight into Deceptiville to do it! (Transformers; writing credit: George Arthur Bloom; Doug Booth)

They travel from world to world making everyone stupid in order to wipe out all thought in the universe. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

To wipe out the world one annoying teenager at a time? (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg)

Wipe out the past (MIXED EMOTIONS; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Wipe Out (performing artist: The Surfaris)

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Books

• Wipe Out [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• Wipe Out the Brierlys (reference)

• Wipe out your debts & make a fresh start; a lawyer tells you how to (reference)

• Wipe Out, (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Hardy Boys - Wipe Out (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Wipe Out! The Best of the Surfaris (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Victory Multimedia Wipe Out! CD Repair Kit By: Esprit Development Corp (reference)

• Wipe Out (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Wipe out discrimination. CIO says "Wipe out discrimination" / Milton Ackoff. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Bolivia

Bolivian President Hugo Banzer has pledged to wipe out illicit coca production and drug trafficking in Bolivia by the end of his term in 2002. His administration unveiled its 5-year counternarcotics strategy in December 1997. The plan calls for significant funding from international donors. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "wipe out": wipe out head. Additional references.

Afrikaans

uitroei (exterminate). (various references)

Albanian

zhduk (bump off, conceal, disperse, efface, eradicate, hide, kill, obliterate, overturn, Rob, stave off, steal, wipe), thaj (blot, desiccate, drain, drink off, dry, dry up, exsiccate, feel cool, sap, sear, torrefy, wither), harroj (condone, disremember, fail, forget, leave behind, leave out, Miss, omit), fik (destroy, douse, extinguish, fig, fig tree, out, ruin, slake, switch off, turn off, ungear). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محا (blot out, deface, efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, obliterate, rub out, scratch out, sponge out, wipe off), ‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏صفى (clarify, clear, close out, colander, comb out, defecate, determine, do away with, filter, filtrate, leach, liquidate, lixiviate, mop up, polish off, refine, run, sell off, strain, uncloud). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe up), убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, zap), очиствам (break, chastise, clean, cleanse, clear, depurate, deterge, do in, flick, polish off, pop off, purge, purify, push off, remove, rid, rub out), ликвидирам (account for, liquidate, push off, put down, sell off, stamp out, unmake, wind up), помитам (broom, sweep, sweep away, sweep up). (various references)

Chinese 

除 (divide, do away with, except, remove), 殲滅 (annihilate, destroy), � �銷 (apply for reimbursement, submit an expense account, write-off). (various references)

Czech

vytřít (mop, mop up), vymazat (blot out, clear, delete, erase, obliterate, puddle, rub off, rub out, scrub), vyhubit (exterminate, kill), vyhladit (annihilate, blot out, eradicate, erase, even, even out, exterminate, obliterate), utírat (rub, swab, swob, wipe, wipe off). (various references)

Dutch

verdelgen (exterminate), uitroeien (exterminate). (various references)

Esperanto

ekstermi (exterminate). (various references)

Faeroese

týna (exterminate), avoyða (exterminate). (various references)

Finnish

hävittää (annihilate, destroy, devastate, exterminate, lay . . waste, misappropriate, ravage). (various references)

French

exterminer. (various references)

German

tilgen (amortize, compound, delete, erase, exterminate, liquidate, obliterate, pay off, redeem, satisfy, to amortize, to obliterate, to pay off, wear away), auswischen (dust out, get one over on, rub out, to wipe out, wipe clean), ausrotten (destroy, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, kill off, stamp out, to eradicate, to exterminate, to extirpate, uproot). (various references)

Greek 

καθαρίζω εσωτερικά, σβήνω (blow out, burn out, delete, die out, erase, extinguish, fade away, faint, go out, obliterate, put out, quench, rub out, slake, snuff, snuff out, switch off, turn off), εξαλείφω (blot out, delete, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub out, strike out). (various references)

Hebrew 

למחות (blot out, efface, erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe), למחוק (cancel, cross out, delete, efface, erase, raze, rub out, rubber, strike off, strike out, write off), לחסל (annihilate, do away with, eliminate, liquidate, scotch), ל�"שמי�" (annihilate, destroy, exterminate, extirpate, lay waste, obliterate, scotch, smash). (various references)

Hungarian

kitöröl (block out, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, strike out, to blot, to blot out, to disfigure, to excise, to obliterate, to raze, to strike out, to wipe out), kiegyenlít (balance, clear off, compensate, equalize, equate, even, harmonize, level, offset, pay, pay off, to accommodate, to acquit, to equalize, to equate, to equilibrate, to even, to iron out, to level off, to level out, to liquidate, to make good, to make square, to make up, to offset, to pay off, to reconcile), eltöröl (abolish, cancel, do away, obliterate, to abolish, to annul, to extinguish, to obliterate, to put down, to repeal, to rescind, to revoke). (various references)

Indonesian

menghabisi (end, finish off, spend), melibas (clean out, defeat completely), melebur (fuse, melt, merge), berantas (combat, fight (against), remove). (various references)

Italian

sterminare (exterminate), cancellare (blot, cancel, cross out, delete, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, obliterate, rub off, rub out, score off, scratch out, stop, strike off, strike out, zap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ワープロ馬鹿 (business shirt, dead silence after a joke falls flat, food wagon service, multi-national enterprise, news program, shirt, someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer, table-side service, talk and varietyshow, vaccine, vagina, vaseline, wacoal, Wagner, wagon, wagon sale, Waikiki, warlock, washer, Washington, Washington Post, WASP, watt, wax, wide, wide-angle lens, wide-band, wife, wild, wild pitch, windshield wipers, windup, wine, wine color, wine glass, wine list, wine red, winecooler, winery, wipe, wipe in, wire, wire glass, wired, wireless, wireless mike, wire-wrapping, wise, wivern, working holiday, workshop, World, world class, World Cup, world enterprise, World Games, World Series, worm, wow, wow and flutter, Wyoming, wyvern). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ワイプアウト . (various references)

Manx

scryssey (cancel, cancellation; growl, eliminate, elimination, erase, forage, grin, pare down, rub out, scrap, scrape, scrape away, scraping, scratch, shave, sneer, strike out, write off), cur fo hart (rout). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipeway outay

Portuguese

varrer (broom, brush, clean, scavenge, sweep), suprimir (burke, crush, cut, dele, dissolve, eliminate, exterminate, fade away, knock out, liquidate, obliterate, prune, put down, quash, quell, smother, stop, suppress, throttle), limpar (bream, brush, clean, cleanse, delete, depurate, fettle, furbish, make clean, mop up, purge, purify, rake, rub, rub down, rub out, scavenge, scour, unstop, wash, wipe, wipe off, wipe up), fazer desaparecer (make away, rase, raze, rid, wipe off), extinguir (die, do for, douse, exterminate, extinguish, fade, jugulate, obliterate, out, put out, quash, quench, smother), exterminar (annihilate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, mop up), eliminar (cross off, eliminate, expunge, exterminate, obliterate, write off), destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wrack, wreck), aniquilar (annihilate, annul, demolish, destroy, exterminate, scupper, unmake), abolir (aboil, abolish, abrogate, annul, do away, exterminate, nullify, rescind, rid, stop). (various references)

Romanian

nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, overwhelm, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wither), şterge o urmã. (various references)

Russian 

уничтожать (annihilate, avoid, crush, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill out, obliterate, uncreate), вытирать (fridge, mop up, wipe, wipe away, wipe off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uništiti (annihilate, come to grief, dash, destroy, do away with, do for, exterminate, lay low, liquidate, obliterate, polish off, take out, unmake, waste, weed out, wreck), ubiti (assassinate, bag, bump off, cut down, do away, do away with, kill, make away, murder, put away, slay, zap), izbrisati (delete, expunge, obliterate, red pencil, rub out, score out, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, strike, strike off, strike out). (various references)

Spanish

suprimir de (drop, excise), liquidar (account for, acquit, clear off, erase, liquefy, liquidate, liquidize, satisfy, sell off, sell out, settle, wind up), limpiar (black, char, clean, clean down, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, debug, delete, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, purge, rub up, scavenge, scour, scrape, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe up), extirpar (ablate, cut out, eradicate, excise, extirpate, remove, root out, take out), extinguir (delete, die off, erase, exterminate, extinction, extinguish, liquidate, obliterate, put down, put out, redeemed, switch off), enjugar (clean, delete, dry, mop and mow, wipe, wipe at, wipe off), destruir por un golpe (cross out), cancelar (annul, call off, cancel, countermand, delete, erase, repudiate, scratch, spread, to cancel, undo, write off, zap), borrar (cross out, delete, destroy, dim, efface, erase, expunge, expurgate, obliterate, rub out, scratch, scratch out, strike off, strike out, write away, write off, zap), aniquilar (annihilate, destroy). (various references)

Swedish

utradera (delete), utplåna (blot, deface, delete, efface, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, obliterate, paint out, rase off, raze), göra sig kvitt. (various references)

Turkish

yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off), temizlemek (bump off, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear up, decontaminate, depurate, do, do out, erase, excise, expurgate, get rid of, give smth. a sweep, gut, houseclean, mop up, purge, purify, rid, rub out, scavenge, swab down, sweep, swob down, tidy out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe up), silmek (blank, blot out, cancel, cross out, Dele, delete, efface, erase, expunge, forgive, furbish, give smth. a wipe, obliterate, rub down, rub off, rub out, rule out, rule smth. out, strike off, strike out, whisk, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe up, write off), silip temizlemek (give smth. a wipe, whisk), ovarak çıkarmak, kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, confine, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, zap), ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay for, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, redeem, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

deleo, extinguere. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wipeout.

-2 letters: pewit, towie.

-3 letters: etui, poet, pout, tope, topi, wept, wipe, wite.

-4 letters: ope, opt, out, owe, pet, pew, pie, pit, piu, poi, pot, pow, put, tew, tie, tip, toe, top, tow, tui, tup, two, upo, wet, wit, woe, wop, wot.

-5 letters: et, it, oe, op, ow, pe, pi, ti, to, up, ut, we, wo.

+1 letter: wipeouts.

+3 letters: multipower, outweeping.

+4 letters: outpowering.