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src: wikipedia
- Definition
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- wipe out :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
- wipe out :kill in large numbers
- the plague wiped out an entire population
- wipe out :eliminate completely and without a trace
- The old values have been wiped out
- wipe out :remove from memory or existence
- The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
- wipe out :mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- kill these lines in the President's speech
- wipe out :wipe out the effect of something
- The new tax effectively cancels out my raise|The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record