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1. wipe_out - 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"

Synonym(s): consume, eat_up, use_up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run_through

Hypernym(s): spend, expend, drop




2. wipe_out - verb

· kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"

Synonym(s): eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry_off

Hypernym(s): kill




3. wipe_out - verb

· eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"

Synonym(s): sweep_away

Hypernym(s): destroy, destruct




4. wipe_out - verb

· remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"

Synonym(s): erase

Hypernym(s): kill




5. wipe_out - verb

· mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"

Synonym(s): kill, obliterate

Hypernym(s): take_away, take_out




6. wipe_out - 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"

Synonym(s): cancel_out

Hypernym(s): extinguish, eliminate, get_rid_of, do_away_with





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