WIPE OUT
Definition:
- [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"
Synonyms: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through
- [verb] kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
Synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off
- [verb] eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
Synonyms: sweep away
- [verb] remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
Synonyms: erase
- [verb] mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
Synonyms: kill, obliterate
- [verb] 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
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