Overview of noun wipe_out

The noun wipeout has 2 senses

• destruction, demolition, wipeout -- (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)


• wipeout -- (a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard))

Overview of verb wipe_out

The verb wipe out has 6 senses

• consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out -- (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")


• eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off -- (kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population")


• wipe out, sweep away -- (eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out")


• erase, wipe out -- (remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915")


• kill, obliterate, wipe out -- (mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech")


• cancel out, wipe out -- (wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record")