Wipe Out

1.  Destroy, as in The large chains are wiping out the independent bookstores. Originally put simply as wipe, the idiom acquired out in the first half of the 1800s.
2.  Kill; also, murder. For example, The entire crew was wiped out in the plane crash, or The gangsters threatened to wipe him and his family out. [Late 1800s]

Definition: destroy; get rid of
Antonyms: build, create

The verb has 7 meanings:

Meaning #1: use up, as of resources or materials
  Synonyms: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through

Meaning #2: kill in large numbers
  Synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off

Meaning #3: eliminate completely and without a trace
  Synonym: sweep away

Meaning #4: remove from memory or existence
  Synonym: erase

Meaning #5: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase, as of writings
  Synonyms: kill, obliterate

Meaning #6: wipe out the effect of something
  Synonym: cancel out

Meaning #7: remove completely from recognition or memory
  Synonyms: obliterate, efface

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Wipe Out or Wipeout may refer to:

In television:

• Wipeout (American game show), an American reality competition featuring various obstacle courses
  • Several international versions of the above show, including:
  • Total Wipeout, a British version filmed in Argentina
  • Wipeout (Australian game show), an Australian version filmed in Argentina
• Wipeout (1988 game show), a late 1980s American and 1990s British television game show, where players name answers off a board that correspond with a topic.

Other meanings:

• "Wipe Out" (song), a song by The Surfaris
• "Wipe Out" (New Model Army song), a song by the band New Model Army
• Wipe out, a surfing term for being thrown off one's surfboard, extended by analogy to a skateboard or a snowboard or generally crash
• wipEout (video game series), a video game series involving anti-gravity racing
• Wipeout (ride), a ride at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
• Wipeout (comics), a deceased supervillain from Marvel Comics
• Wipeout (alcohol), a coconut flavoured wine product
• Wipeout (elections), when a major party receives few votes or seats

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