wipe out Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb use up (resources or materials)
   exhaust; consume; deplete; use up; eat up; eat; run through.
   
   • this car consumes a lot of gas
   • We exhausted our savings
   • They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
2. verb kill in large numbers
   annihilate; carry off; decimate; eliminate; extinguish; eradicate.
   
   • the plague wiped out an entire population
3. verb eliminate completely and without a trace
   sweep away.
   
   • The old values have been wiped out
4. verb remove from memory or existence
   erase.
   
   • The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
5. verb mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
   obliterate; kill.
   
   • kill these lines in the President's speech
6. verb wipe out the effect of something
   cancel out.
   
   • The new tax effectively cancels out my raise
   • The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record

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