wipeout
or wipe-out
Informal. destruction, annihilation, or murder.
Informal. (in sports) a decisive defeat.
a fall from a surfboard.
Slang. a total or complete failure: to suffer a wipeout in the stock market.
Slang. complete physical exhaustion.
Origin of wipeout
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How to use wipeout in a sentence
The trucking roads make it easier for predators to wipe out prey.
So too, could it encourage population booms, or wipe out millions through starvation and destruction.
Aronofsky's Noah believes that the flood is supposed to wipe out all mankind—including, eventually, his family.
‘Noah’ Review: An Ambitious, Flawed Biblical Tale That You Have to See | Andrew Romano | March 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMary drank to mask her pain, wipe out her feelings, and sleep,” says a confidante, “not get drunk.
New Questions Arise About Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Suicide | Nancy Collins | May 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMy fear was that the way that he died would wipe out the way that he lived.
They made it plain that they hoped to wipe out the sting of their recent defeat and take full vengeance upon the Kiowas.
Three Sioux Scouts | Elmer Russell GregorI swear by my love for you and my mother that I will wipe out the Marcums, cost what it may.
The Ghost Breaker | Charles GoddardThere is no process but life itself that can effectually wipe out the immigrant's memory of his past.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology | Robert E. ParkMy old Slav kingdom I did not care to keep; it was best to give up everything, and wipe out all memory of myself.
Dr. Dumany's Wife | Mr JkaiBut the sweetness of her nearness could not for him wipe out the fact that before them lay parting and long heartache.
The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins
British Dictionary definitions for wipe out
(tr) to destroy completely; eradicate
(tr) informal to murder or kill
(intr) to fall or jump off a surfboard or skateboard
an act or instance of wiping out
the interference of one radio signal by another so that reception is impossible
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with wipeout
Destroy, as in The large chains are wiping out the independent bookstores. Originally put simply as wipe, the idiom acquired out in the first half of the 1800s.
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