wipe : Idioms & Phrases

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by-wipe

By"-wipe` noun
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  1. A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm. Milton.
Webster 1913

To wipe a joint

  • (Plumbing), 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.
Webster 1913

To wipe one's nose of

  • to deprive of; to rob. Slang
Webster 1913

To wipe the nose of

  • to cheat. Old Slang
Webster 1913

wipe away

  • verb remove by wiping
    wipe away.
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wipe off

  • verb remove by wiping
    wipe away.
  • verb remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
    efface; score out; erase; rub out.
    • Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
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wipe out

  • verb use up (resources or materials)
    exhaust; consume; deplete; use up; eat up; eat; run through.
    • this car consumes a lot of gas
    • We exhausted our savings
    • They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
  • verb kill in large numbers
    annihilate; carry off; decimate; eliminate; extinguish; eradicate.
    • the plague wiped out an entire population
  • verb eliminate completely and without a trace
    sweep away.
    • The old values have been wiped out
  • verb remove from memory or existence
    erase.
    • The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
  • verb mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
    obliterate; kill.
    • kill these lines in the President's speech
  • verb wipe out the effect of something
    cancel out.
    • The new tax effectively cancels out my raise
    • The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record
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wipe up

  • verb to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
    mop; mop up.
    • Mop the hallway now
    • He mopped her forehead with a towel
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wiped out

  • adjective satellite destroyed completely
    annihilated; exterminated.
  • adjective satellite destroyed financially
    broken; impoverished.
    • the broken fortunes of the family
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