wipe out meaning and definition

WIPE OUT verb

Definition of wipe out (verb)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up
2. kill in large numbers
   • "the plague wiped out an entire population"
   • synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish
3. eliminate completely and without a trace
   • "The old values have been wiped out"
   • synonyms: sweep away
4. remove from memory or existence
   • "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
   • synonyms: erase
5. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
   • "kill these lines in the President's speech"
   • synonyms: kill, obliterate
6. 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: cancel out