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IS and ARE are both forms of which verb?
Origin of wipe
First recorded before 1000; 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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