wipe out
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Definitions
Verb
use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
Verb
kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
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eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
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remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
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mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President''s speech"
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wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A'' will cancel out the `C'' on your record"
Synonyms
annihilate
cancel out
carry off
consume
decimate
deplete
eat
eat up
eliminate
eradicate
erase
exhaust
extinguish
kill
obliterate
run through
sweep away
use up
More General Terms
destroy
destruct
do away with
drop
eliminate
expend
extinguish
get rid of
kill
spend
take away
take out