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wipe out en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (alt-of, nonstandard) Nonstandard form of wipeout; nonstandard but widespread.
   alt of wipeout

Forms

wipe out en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
   • Yasser Arafat (Katz): You do not go far enough General Amin. We must rip their entrails out and drag them from here to Damascus until they include us in the peace process. Muammar Gaddafi (LuJane): No! Nonsense! This solution is not bold enough for Libya. I say wipe out Washington and New York. 1988 December 2, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Pat Proft, directed by David Zucker, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, David Katz and Robert LuJane (actors):
   • Darth Sidious: Wipe them out. All of them. 1999, “Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, in Star Wars:
   • a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town
   • Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account. 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 33:41 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
2. (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
   • nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups
3. (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear.
   • trying to wipe out hunger and alleviate despair
   • The leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had dominated headlines in recent weeks with rousing open-air rallies against capitalism, took about 11% and failed in his ultimate aim of beating Le Pen and wiping out the extreme right. 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
4. (informal, transitive) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out.
   • An hour of snow shoveling kind of wiped me out more than I expected.
   • I tried to force myself to sound happy even though I was exhausted. Four solid days of finals and studying for them had wiped me out. 2014, Sandra Gutierrez, The Way Life Used To Be, page 135:
5. (informal, transitive) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance).
   • Unexpected big-ticket expenses wiped out his bank balance.
   • They tried hard to hang on, but the Great Depression wiped them out.
6. (intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
   • shot into the half-pipe but then wiped out
   • A massive wave caused him to wipe out.
7. (transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board.
   • A massive wave wiped him out.
   • I'd like to show you what a wipeout looks like from the board. I'm pretty good at getting wiped out, so I'll be the stooge. 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:

Forms

Coordinates

clean out · clear out

Deriveds

wipeout · wipe-out

Translations (85)

cs vyhladit (to destroy or obliterate) · ca exterminar (to destroy or obliterate) · mi muku (to erase) · pl wymazać (to destroy or obliterate) · ru стира́ть (to erase) · fa محویدن (to destroy or obliterate) · sv utplåna (to destroy or obliterate) · pl tępić (to destroy or obliterate) · pl zniszczyć (to destroy or obliterate) · de ausradieren (to erase) · mi opeope (to erase) · it obliterare (to destroy or obliterate) · sv sudda bort (to erase) · de auswischen (to erase) · es caer (to crash or fall) · it spazzare via (to destroy or obliterate) · ca anihilar (to destroy or obliterate) · ru истреби́ть (to destroy or obliterate) · ca aniquilar (to destroy or obliterate) · pt apagar (to erase) · ru уничто́жить (to destroy or obliterate) · pl wymazywać (to destroy or obliterate) · it cancellare (to erase) · es borrar del mapa (to destroy or obliterate) · es sacarse la mierda (to crash or fall) · fi pyyhkiä (to erase) · ru уничтожа́ть (to destroy or obliterate) · pl wymazywać (to erase) · sv välta (to crash or fall) · es aniquilar (to destroy or obliterate) · pl zderzyć się (to crash or fall) · ota قازیمق (to erase) · eo neniigi (to destroy or obliterate) · pl pokonać (to destroy or obliterate) · es borrar (to erase) · ru истребля́ть (to destroy or obliterate) · pl wytępić (to destroy or obliterate) · sv sudda (to erase) · sv utrota (to destroy or obliterate) · de auslöschen (to destroy or obliterate) · mi tipihauraro (to destroy or obliterate) · pt aniquilar (to destroy or obliterate) · fi kaatua (to crash or fall) · mi ūkui (to erase) · sv vurpa (to crash or fall) · ka განადგურება (to destroy or obliterate) · cs úplně zničit (to destroy or obliterate) · ckb لەناوبردن (to destroy or obliterate) · it annientare (to destroy or obliterate) · ota افنا ایتمك (to destroy or obliterate) · pl wymazać (to erase) · pl zderzać się (to crash or fall) · ca esborrar (to erase) · de vernichten (to destroy or obliterate) · ru стере́ть (to erase) · fi tuhota (to destroy or obliterate) · cs smazat (to erase) · mi hoepapa (to destroy or obliterate) · pl pokonywać (to destroy or obliterate) · ja 一掃する (to destroy or obliterate) · sv radera (to erase) · bg изтривам (to erase) · cs smést (to destroy or obliterate) · pt cair (to crash or fall) · fr effacer (to erase) · pt exterminar (to destroy or obliterate) · it cancellare dalla terra (to destroy or obliterate) · mi urupatu (to destroy or obliterate) · sv sudda ut (to erase) · bg ликвидирам (to destroy or obliterate) · cs vymazat (to erase) · pl wytępiać (to destroy or obliterate) · es exterminar (to destroy or obliterate) · fr anéantir (to destroy or obliterate) · ka წაშლა (to erase) · it eliminare (to destroy or obliterate) · sh izbrisati (to erase) · mi muru (to erase) · ota قازیمق (to destroy or obliterate) · fi pyyhkäistä pois (to destroy or obliterate) · el εξαλείφω (to destroy or obliterate) · es sacarse la mugre (to crash or fall) · ko 무찌르다 (to destroy or obliterate) · pl niszczyć (to destroy or obliterate) · sh sravniti sa zemljom (to destroy or obliterate)