Synonyms for wipe out
wipe out

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1. wipe out

   Exterminate (Latin ex, out, and terminus, a boundary) signified primarily to drive beyond the bounds or limits of a country; the word is applied to races of men or animals, and is now almost exclusively used for removal by death; individuals are now said to be banished or expelled. Eradicate (Latin e, out, and radix, root) is primarily applied to numbers or groups of plants which it is desired to remove effectually from the soil; a single tree may be uprooted, but is not said to be eradicated; we labor to eradicate or root out noxious weeds. To extirpate (Latin ex, out, and stirps, stem, stock) is not only to destroy the individuals of any race of plants or animals, but the very stock, so that the race can never be restored; we speak of eradicating a disease, of extirpating a cancer, exterminating wild beasts or hostile tribes; we seek to eradicate or extirpate all vices and evils. Compare ABOLISH.

   Synonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot

   Antonyms:
   augment, beget, breed, build up, cherish, colonize, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

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1. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe outverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, take in, eat on, eat up, play out, expel, ware, wash up, eat, erase, release, corrode, beat, tire, kill, go through, eliminate, take, have, occupy, waste, finish, use up, swallow, tucker, polish off, decimate, tucker out, rust, feed, ingest, swallow up, obliterate, run through, extinguish, squander, annihilate, bury, down, discharge, run down, work through, devour, sweep away, sap, cancel out, eject, immerse, consume, carry off, deplete, eradicate

2. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offverb

   kill in large numbers

   "the plague wiped out an entire population"

   Synonyms:
   obviate, bear off, eat up, crush out, pull off, rule out, exhaust, annihilate, reject, negociate, take away, eliminate, get rid of, manage, bear away, use up, rid of, bring off, extirpate, decimate, exterminate, press out, kill, eat, obliterate, run through, quench, cancel out, snuff out, pass, carry away, do away with, stub out, uproot, blow out, winnow out, excrete, root out, erase, extinguish, sweep away, carry off, consume, egest, deplete, eradicate

3. wipe out, sweep awayverb

   eliminate completely and without a trace

   "The old values have been wiped out"

   Synonyms:
   deplete, eat, eliminate, cancel out, decimate, kill, eat up, carry off, sweep away, exhaust, run through, extinguish, consume, erase, obliterate, sweep off, annihilate, use up, eradicate

4. erase, wipe outverb

   remove from memory or existence

   "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"

   Synonyms:
   deplete, eat, annihilate, cancel out, rub out, erase, score out, decimate, kill, eat up, carry off, delete, sweep away, exhaust, extinguish, consume, run through, obliterate, efface, wipe off, eliminate, use up, eradicate

5. kill, obliterate, wipe outverb

   mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

   "kill these lines in the President's speech"

   Synonyms:
   veil, eat up, vote down, exhaust, eat, blot out, eliminate, belt down, use up, drink down, defeat, decimate, shoot down, obscure, kill, obliterate, run through, toss off, cancel out, stamp out, hide, bolt down, annihilate, down, efface, pop, erase, extinguish, pour down, sweep away, consume, vote out, carry off, deplete, eradicate

6. cancel out, wipe outverb

   wipe out the effect of something

   "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"

   Synonyms:
   deplete, eat, eliminate, cancel out, erase, decimate, kill, eat up, carry off, sweep away, exhaust, annihilate, extinguish, consume, run through, obliterate, use up, eradicate

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1. wipe out

   Synonyms:
   efface, obliterate, erase, expunge, cancel, raze, scratch out, rub out

Suggested Resources

1. wipe out

   Read the full text of the Wipe Out poem by Mario William Vitale on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Jean Baudrillard:

   To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

2. Curtis Arnold:

   With a prepaid, you don't run that risk because they could wipe out the account, but not the whole checking account.

3. Barack Obama:

   Think about that. If another country threatened to wipe out an American town, we'd do everything in our power to protect ourselves, climate change poses the same threat, right now.

4. Marco Rubio:

   I would be targeting their safe havens everywhere including in Libya, if we don't wipe out that operational status that they now have in Libya they're going to use it to ramp up more operations in Sinai, more in Egypt and eventually it will cross over the Mediterranean into Europe itself.

5. Ralph Harbach:

   It might be possible to wipe out a few species but we don't want to wipe out the good guys because a lot of them serve as food for frogs, fish and bats, many also visit flowers to feed on nectar and may play a role in pollination.