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WIPE UP

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Dictionary entry overview: What does wipe up mean?

• WIPE UP (verb)
The verb WIPE UP has 1 sense:

1. to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

Familiarity information: WIPE UP used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WIPE UP (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

mop; mop up; wipe up

Context examples:

Mop the hallway now / He mopped her forehead with a towel

Hypernyms (to "wipe up" is one way to...):

absorb; draw; imbibe; soak up; sop up; suck; suck up; take in; take up (take in, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wipe up"):

swab; swob (wash with a swab or a mop)

sponge (soak up with a sponge)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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