From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.
Meanings
The act of wiping something.
multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
When on a plane or train, don't take anything into the bathroom except baby, a changing pad, a diaper, a travel packet of wipes, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. Always use a wipe on the area before you put your baby down. 2009, Mary Ann Zoellner, Alicia Ybarbo, Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's First Year, page 58:
(UK, obsolete, slang) A handkerchief.
"Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work." 1883, London Society, volume 43, page 101:
All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […] 1859, Ducange Anglicus, The Vulgar Tongue, page 54:
A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
(obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273
(UK, obsolete, slang) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
He rode close up to a French officer, and so much in advance of his men that the Frenchman thought he was going to surrender, and dropped his sword, when Penrice gave him a wipe over his head. 1894, William Tomkinson, James Tomkinson, The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns 1809-1815, page 48:
vi khăn lau (piece of cloth for wiping) · pl chusteczka (piece of cloth for wiping) · bg бърсалка (piece of cloth for wiping) · vi khăn chùi (piece of cloth for wiping) · fr lingette (piece of cloth for wiping) · ja ウェットティッシュ (piece of cloth for wiping)
From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.
Meanings
(transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.
Tom started to wipe his eyes.
So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds. The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely[…] 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
(transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
You've wiped grease all over your shirt.
(transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
So the plot is that he wipes half the population? 2019 April 25, Amby Vaingankar, Ambycomics (comic):
(ambitransitive) To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.
Even if you wipe very carefully, you still have to wash your hands afterward.
I had nothing to wipe my bum with.
(transitive) To erase.
I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
(transitive) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
(figuratively) To remove an expression from one's face.
You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in.
Please wipe that look out of your eyes, it's bribing me to doubt myself. 2008, Adele, First Love:
(transitive) To deperm (a ship).
To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
Steve-O tells the camera, “Don’t worry; the next skit’s gonna be amazing”; he then pretends to grab the side of the screen, which “wipes” to the next shot. 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 85:
(UK, obsolete, slang) To hit or strike.
(obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods. 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
The English, which they thinke lye still in wayte to wipe them out of theyr landes. 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
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Translations (155)
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(erase a computer disk) · is klína (to smear by rubbing) · io vishar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · is þurrka af (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ko 닦다 (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · vi xoá (erase a computer disk) · nl wissen (erase a computer disk) · fa پاک کردن (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · grc ὀμόργνυμι (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · cs vymazat (erase a computer disk) · sw pangusa (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ga cuimil (to smear by rubbing) · gu લૂછવું (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · lo ເຊັດ (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · cs utřít (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · te తుడుచు (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · nl vegen (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · kea linpa (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ba һөртөү (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ak pepa (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ga glan (erase a computer disk) · cs utírat (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · vi chùi (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · es guaipear (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ary مْسح (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · gd sguab (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · fi pyyhkiä (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · sga fo·slig (to smear by rubbing) · ms lap (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · es trapear (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ang wīpian (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · sl brisati (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · la tergō (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · mi muru (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · mk брише (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · nrf êssuyer (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · hi मिटाना (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · mi ūkui (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · pl podcierać (clean the buttocks and anus after defecation) · sv radera (erase a computer disk) · es formatear (erase a computer disk) · hi पोंछना (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ar مَسَحَ (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · mi whēru (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · be выціра́ць (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · sk utrieť (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · no viske (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · sk utierať (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ga cuimil (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ru стира́ть (erase a computer disk) · vi lau (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · cmn 擦拭 (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · id hapus (erase a computer disk) · hy սրբել (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · da slette (erase a computer disk) · nl vegen (clean the buttocks and anus after defecation) · tr silmek (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · as মোছা (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · et pühkima (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · pl wymazać (erase a computer disk) · pl podetrzeć (clean the buttocks and anus after defecation) · nl smeren (to smear by rubbing) · my သုတ် (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · es esponjar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · wa rixhorbi (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · hu töröl (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · es wipear (erase a computer disk) · vi chùi sạch (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · vi lau sạch (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · grc σμάω (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · yue 抹 (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · gl enxugar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · zmi pusi (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · gl limpar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · de wischen (clean the buttocks and anus after defecation) · as মচা (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · sv torka (clean the buttocks and anus after defecation) · he נִגֵּב (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · cpn pwere (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · bth gutos (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ru стере́ть (erase a computer disk) · ru стере́ть (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · nay nripun (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · sv smeta (to smear by rubbing) · sw futa (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · be вы́церці (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · pl wytrzeć (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · no slette (erase a computer disk) · hy մաքրել (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · wa stiede (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · mi muku (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · it asciugare (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · id sapu bersih (erase a computer disk) · sh izbrisati (erase a computer disk) · de wischen (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · sh брисати (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ro șterge (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · th เช็ด (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · es enjugar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · rm sientar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ttj -ragaza (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · hu töröl (to smear by rubbing) · oc eissugar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · es enjutar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · cmn 抹 (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · lv slaucīt (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · it pulire (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · da viske (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · om haxaa'uu (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ta துடை (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · wa xhorbi (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · eu garbitu (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · da tørre (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · zea vaege (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · fa ستردن (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · bg изтривам (erase a computer disk) · yi ווישן (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · nn turka (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · hu töröl (clean the buttocks and anus after defecation) · izh pyyhkiä (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · el σκουπίζω (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · gaa enga (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · uk ви́терти (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ru вы́тереть (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · is þurrka (clean the buttocks and anus after defecation) · lut ʔik̓ʷi (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ja 拭く (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · fr essuyer (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ru стира́ть (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · id hapus (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · pt enxugar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · de löschen (erase a computer disk) · cmn 擦 (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · ba юйыу (erase a computer disk) · sh brisati (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · pt esfregar (to rub in order to remove surface substance) · pt limpar (to rub in order to remove surface substance)