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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.
Origin of wipe
First recorded before1000; Middle English wipen, Old English wīpian; cognate with Old High German wīfan “to wind round,” Gothic weipan “to crown”; perhaps akin to Latin vibrāre “to move to and fro”
Words nearby wipe
Wintun, win-win, winy, winze, WIP, wipe, wiped-out, wipe off the map, wipeout, wiper, wipe the slate clean
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British Dictionary definitions for wipe
wipe
/ (waɪp) /
verb (tr)
noun
Word Origin for wipe
Old English wīpian, related to Middle Low German wīpen, wīp bundle (of cloth), Old High German wīffa, wīfan to wind, Gothic weipan to wreathe
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Idioms and Phrases with wipe
wipe
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