Wipe

Definition: Wipe

Wipe

Noun

1. The act of rubbing or wiping; "he gave the hood a quick rub".

Verb

1. Rub with a wiping motion.

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

Date "wipe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Fine Arts

Post & Telecom

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Wipe

Atonement

Set one's house in order, wipe off old scores, make matters up; pay the forfeit, pay the penalty.

Cleanness

Clean, cleanse; mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, 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.

Disapprobation

Take down, take down a peg, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue.

Disrespect

Hiss, hoot, boo, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face.

Dryness

Render dry. Adjective: dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; drain.

Nonobservance

Discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught, nullify, declare null and void; cancel; (wipe off).

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.

Payment

Discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate; pay up, pay old debts.

Pity

Forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de gr_ce, put out of one's misery.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade.

Relief

Be relieved; breathe more freely, draw a long breath; take comfort; dry the tears, dry the eyes, wipe the tears, wipe the eyes.

Crosswords: Wipe

We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Would you like me to wipe the leaves of your fichus tree (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

You want I should wipe the dead bugs off the windshield (The Blues Brothers ; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, John Landis)

Ellen Ripley died trying to wipe this species out. For all intents and purposes, she succeeded (Alien: Resurrection; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

Alright, I'll wipe it off, that's all. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

You wipe away each other's tears (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

And that would wipe the smile right from my face (Heat of the Moment; performing artist: Asia)

And Mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to wipe your feet ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

So I can wipe the tears away from your eyes (Where you are; performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

I wipe the spots off all the mirror (You Were Meant For Me; performing artist: Jewel)

Don't Forget to Wipe the Blood Off (1966)

Ma's Wipe Your Feet Campaign (1921)

Wipe Out (performing artist: The Surfaris)

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

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Baby Wipe Canisters (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Animals (My First Write and Wipe) (reference)

• Easy As ABC - A Wipe Clean Activity Book (reference)

• Numbers (My First Write and Wipe) (reference)

• Play & Learn (My First Write and Wipe) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Crashes, Splashes, Wipe.. (reference)

• White Water Wipe Outs (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

• Wipe Out (reference)

• File Wipe 6.0 [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

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

Consumer Goods

• Especially for Baby Wipe Warmer with bonus Diaper Organizer (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Spill response and clean-up at the oil spill site. Clean up workers use absorbent material to clean-up and wipe down the shoreline. The workers are cleaning up after the World Prodigy tanker spilled 290,000 gallons of #2 home heating oil into Narragansett Bay. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

And every time the princess sighs her tearful subjects wipe their eyes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jim Fletcher stopping to wipe off the windshield at the beginning of a snow storm near Elizabethton, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was reported that in the shop, with all the rest about her, she often turned aside to wipe away a tear

Wipe your feet

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Wipe from front to back to prevent bacteria around the anus from entering the vagina or urethra. (references)

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "wipe": damp wipe ♦ give one a wipe ♦ give smth. a wipe ♦ To wipe a joint ♦ To wipe one's nose of ♦ To wipe the nose of ♦ wet wipe ♦ wipe at ♦ wipe away ♦ wipe away a tear ♦ wipe clean ♦ wipe down ♦ wipe dry ♦ wipe fading ♦ wipe off ♦ wipe off old scores ♦ wipe on ♦ wipe one's eyes ♦ wipe oneself ♦ wipe out ♦ wipe out head ♦ wipe slide ♦ wipe smb.'s eye ♦ wipe smb.'s eye for him ♦ wipe smth. dry ♦ wipe smth. from the tape ♦ wipe sweat ♦ wipe test ♦ wipe the blackboard ♦ wipe the eyes ♦ wipe the floor ♦ wipe the floor with ♦ wipe the floor with smb. ♦ wipe the tears ♦ wipe up. Additional references.

Beginning with "wipe": wipe-away, wipe-clean, wipe-out, wipe-outs, wipe-over, wipe-through.

Ending with "wipe": spray-wipe.

Afrikaans

afwis (delete, wipe off), afveeg (delete, wipe off), afvee (delete, wipe off). (various references)

Albanian

zhduk (bump off, conceal, disperse, efface, eradicate, hide, kill, obliterate, overturn, Rob, stave off, steal, wipe out), shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe away, wipe off, wither), shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle), fshij (brush, brush away, cancel, clean off, clean up, deface, delete, efface, erase, mop up, obliterate, rase, raze, remove, rub, rub out, scratch out, strike off, sweep, wipe away, wipe off), feks (brighten, dawn, shine), e fshirë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏منديل (handkerchief, hanky, headgear, kerchief, neckerchief, wiper), ‏ملاحظة ساخرة (dig, jeer, jest, skit, slant, sneer), ‏مسح (clean, extinguish, mop, mop up, mopping, polish, rub, scanning, scrub, sponge, survey, swab, sweep, wiping), ‏ضربة (bang, beating, belt, biff, blow, bob, bump, chap, clout, hurt, inflexion, infliction, lash, pelt, plug, pulse, shot, smack, sock, strike, stroke, tank, thrust). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash), трия (grate, grind, rub), отривам, обърсвам (wipe away, wipe off), носна кърпа (handkerchief, hankie, kerchief, napkin, nose rag, snot-rag), бърсалка, бърша (mop), подигравка (dig, flout, gibe, gird, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, mock, mockery, ridicule, rub, scoff, sneer, snub, sport, twit), изтриване (abrasion, defacement, erasure, obliteration), изтривам (delete, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, rase, raze, rub away, rub out, rub up, wear, wear away, wipe away, wipe off, wipe up), избърсване, избърсвам (dry, mop up, remove, wipe clean, wipe dry, wipe off). (various references)

Chinese 

抹 (Wiped, Wiping), 抆 , 搌 (bind, to search), 搵 (press with finger), 揩 , 拭 , �"�掉 , 幯 . (various references)

Czech

utření, utírat (rub, swab, swob, wipe off, wipe out), tampon (swab), setřít (brush away, rub down, snub, squash, take to task, wipe off), otřít, osušit (dry), oèistit (cleanse, purge, purify, whitewash, wipe away, wipe off), úšklebek (grimace, grin, jeer, sneer). (various references)

Danish

overblænding. (various references)

Dutch

wissen (delete, wipe off), afwissen (delete, wipe off), afvegen (delete, wipe off), afdrogen (clatter, delete, dry, wipe off). (various references)

Esperanto

viŝi (delete, wipe off). (various references)

Faeroese

turka (delete, dry, wipe off). (various references)

Farsi 

پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Ventilate, Wash, Winnow), زدودن (Clean, Efface, Obliterate, Purge, Remove, Scour, Scrape, Shuck, Swab, Sweep), خشک کردن (Dehumidify, Desiccation, Evaporate), ازمیان بردن (Abolish, Abrogate, Shunt), بوسیله مالش پاک کردن . (various references)

Finnish

pyyhkiä (cancel, cross out, delete, dry, mop, strike out, wipe off), pyyhkäistä (sweep), peittovaihto, kuivata (drain, dry). (various references)

French

essuyer (wipe off). (various references)

Frisian

ôfwiskje (delete, wipe off), ôffeie (delete, wipe off). (various references)

German

wischen (brush, clout, delete, mop, mop down, mop up, swab, swish, to smear, whisk, wipe off), abstreifen (cast, get rid off, shuffle off, slip off, Slough, strip, take off, to strip, wipe off). (various references)

Greek 

σκουπίζω (scavenge, sweep, wipe off). (various references)

Hebrew 

למחות (blot out, efface, erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe out), לק� ח (cleanse, wipe off), ל� �'ב (absterge, dry, mop, sop up, swab, towel). (various references)

Hungarian

törlés (cancellation, dash, deletion, dismemberment, erasure, obliteration, wiping), törölget (to mop up), töröl (blue pencil, cancel, cross off, delete, scratch off, scratch out, to annul, to delete, to efface, to erase, to flannel, to scratch, to scrub), redõnyzáras rekesz (wipe fading, wipe slide), kioltás (extinction, quenching), képeésötétítés, eltörlés (abolition, abrogation, cancellation, dissolution, obliteration, recission, repeal), elsötétítés (blackout, black-out, dim out, eclipse), átúsztatás (fade, fade-over). (various references)

Indonesian

menyeka, menyapu (sweep), gonyok (make clean, scour). (various references)

Italian

Tendina (curtain), strofinare (clean, polish, rub, rub down, rubbing, scrub), pulita, pulire (bream, clean, cleanse, make, make clean, mop, pick, purge, scavenge, scrub, sweep, wash), commutazione a tendina, asciugare (blot, dry, dry up, get dry, mop, wipe oneself, wipe up). (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 in, wipe out, 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 . (various references)

Korean 

닦음 (Polishing, scouring, Wiping). (various references)

Manx

rubbey (chafe, rub), glenney (act of vindication, chip, clarification, clarification honey, clarify, clean, cleaner, clearance; glass, discharge, draw, draw as fowl, dust, expurgate, freshen, grub, pay off, purge, purification, purify, rid, satisfaction, scale, scavenge, settlement, sink, try out, try out as metal, weed). (various references)

Maori

muru-a (to wipe). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipeway.(various references)

Portuguese

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 off, wipe out, wipe up). (various references)

Romanian

lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wound, wrong), curãţare (abstersion, purification, sponge), curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wash), batistã (bandana, handkerchief, hanky, kerchief, nose rag), ştergere (cancellation, defacement, deletion, effacement, erasure, obliteration, scraping), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish). (various references)

Russian 

стирать стирание (erase, wiping), утирать (wipe away, wipe off), вытирать (fridge, mop up, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), носовой платок (handkerchief, hankie, hanky, nose rag, noserag, snot-rag, wiper), протирать (wipe dry). (various references)

Scottish

suath (knead, mix a soft substance, rub), siab (rub, sweep along quickly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obrisati (dry, swab, wipe away, wipe off, wipe up), brisanje (deletion, effacement, erasure, sweeping, whisk). (various references)

Spanish

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 down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), enjugar (clean, delete, dry, mop and mow, wipe at, wipe off, wipe out). (various references)

Swedish

torka (aridity, dehydrate, drought, dry, dryness, rough-dry, season, sponge down). (various references)

Turkish

vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, chop, crack, crusher, cut, hack, hit, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack), tokat (box, buffet, clout, cuff, lick, slap, slap in the face, smack, sock, wiper), temizleme (clarification, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, expurgation, purgation, purge, purification, sweep), 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 away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, write off), silme (cancel, cancellation, defacement, deletion, erasion, erasure, obliteration, rubbing, wiping), kurulamak (dab, dry), kafa bulma (jape, leg pull, raillery, send up, spoof, wiper), dalga geçme (gibe, jape, jibe, kidding, making fun of smb., no kidding, pulling smb.'s leg, ridicule, wiper), alay (banter, cortege, derision, fleet, fun, gag, gibe, irony, jape, jeer, jest, jibe, joke, leg pull, mock, mockery, parade, persiflage, procession, quiz, regiment, regimental, ridicule, rub, scoff, sneer, taunt, teasing, troops in line). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьpьrmek (sweep). (various references)

Ukrainian

утирати, удар з розмаху, склоочисник (windscreen wiper), синець (bruise, shiner, sore, squat, suffusion), глузування (banter, dig, flout, gibe, jeer, jest, mock, outfling, scoff, send up, sneer, twit, witticism), витирати (dry), витирання (deletion), носова хусточка (hanky, nose rag, nose-wipe, wiper), наплив (affluence, callus, dissolve, inundation, onrush). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lau. (various references)

Welsh

sychu (absorb, dry, dry up, wipe dry). (various references)

adtingas, adtingebat, adtingerent, adtingit, dele, deleam, deleamus, deleant, deleantur, deleas, deleat, deleatur, delebimus, delebis, delebit, delebitque, delebitur, delebo, delebor, delebunt, delebuntur, delendam, delendi, delendos, delens, deleo, delere, delerem, delerent, deleret, deleri, deleta, deletae, deleti, deletis, deleverit, deleverunt, delevi, delevimus, delevit, delevitque, extergent, extergere, extergimus, exterserit, extersit, tergebat, tergo, thersa. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "wipe": wiped, wipeout, wipeouts, wiper, wipers, wipes. (additional references)

Words ending with "wipe": sideswipe, swipe. (additional references)

Words containing "wipe": sideswiped, sideswipes, swiped, swipes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wipe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dwipa, Fipa, Iep, ipe, qwip, waipu, Wapc, wape, Wapi, wapse, waspe, weepe, whipe, whippe, wiap, wibe, wice, wie, wige, wije, wime, wimpa, wimpe, wip, wipee, wipen, wipet, wipl, Wipm, Wipo, wippet, wips, wipt, wope, wp, wpy, yipe, zipe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pew, pie.

-2 letters: pe, pi, we.

+1 letter: pewit, swipe, wiped, wiper, wipes.

+2 letters: cowpie, peewit, pewits, swiped, swipes, swiple, tawpie, weepie, wimple, wipers, wisped.

+3 letters: cowpies, impower, inswept, pawkier, peewits, periwig, pigweed, pinwale, pinweed, preview, purview, spewing, swiples, swipple, tawpies, waspier, weepier, weepies, weeping, whimper, whipped, whipper, whippet, whisper, whoopie, wickape, wimpier, wimpled, wimples, winesop, wipeout, wiretap, wispier, writeup.

+4 letters: airpower, blowpipe, downpipe, impawned, impowers, palewise, pawkiest, periwigs, pigweeds, pilewort, pillowed, pinewood, pinwales, pinweeds, pinwheel, powering, previews, purviews, slipware, stepwise, swampier, sweepier, sweeping, swinepox, swipples, tripwire, warpwise, waspiest, wasplike, weepiest, weepings, wheeping, whelping, whimpers, whiplike, whippers, whippets, whippier, whispers, whispery, whitecap, wickapes, wicopies, wimpiest, windpipe, wineshop, winesops, wipeouts, wiretaps, wispiest, wisplike, woodpile, writeups.