Dictionary entry details
• WIPE OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Use up (resources or materials)
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
wipe out; deplete; use up; run through; exhaust; eat up; eat; consume
Context examples:
this car consumes a lot of gas / We exhausted our savings / They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):
drop; expend; spend (pay out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wipe out"):
run out (exhaust the supply of)
drain (deplete of resources)
indulge; luxuriate (enjoy to excess)
burn; burn off; burn up (use up (energy))
spend (spend completely)
exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire (deplete)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They wipe out more bread
Meaning:
Kill in large numbers
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
annihilate; eradicate; wipe out; decimate; eliminate; carry off; extinguish
Context example:
the plague wiped out an entire population
Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Eliminate completely and without a trace
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
sweep away; wipe out
Context example:
The old values have been wiped out
Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):
destroy; destruct (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Remove from memory or existence
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
erase; wipe out
Context example:
The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
obliterate; wipe out; kill
Context example:
kill these lines in the President's speech
Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):
take away; take out (take out or remove)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Wipe out the effect of something
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
cancel out; wipe out
Context examples:
The new tax effectively cancels out my raise / The 'A' will cancel out the 'C' on your record
Hypernyms (to "wipe out" is one way to...):
do away with; eliminate; get rid of (terminate or take out)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
