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View synonyms for wipe out

wipe out

verb

  1. tr to destroy completely; eradicate
  2. informal.
    tr to murder or kill
  3. intr to fall or jump off a surfboard or skateboard
“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


noun

  1. an act or instance of wiping out
  2. 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
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Example Sentences

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.

Mary drank to mask her pain, wipe out her feelings, and sleep,” says a confidante, “not get drunk.

My 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.

I swear by my love for you and my mother that I will wipe out the Marcums, cost what it may.

There is no process but life itself that can effectually wipe out the immigrant's memory of his past.

My old Slav kingdom I did not care to keep; it was best to give up everything, and wipe out all memory of myself.

But the sweetness of her nearness could not for him wipe out the fact that before them lay parting and long heartache.

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