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Noun: wipeout  'wIp`awt
  1. An event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
    - destruction, demolition
     
  2. A spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)
Verb: wipe out
  1. Use up (resources or materials)
    - consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through
     
  2. Kill in large numbers
    "the plague wiped out an entire population"
    - eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off
     
  3. Eliminate completely and without a trace
    "The old values have been wiped out"
    - sweep away
     
  4. Remove from memory or existence
    - erase
     
  5. Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
    - kill, obliterate
     
  6. Wipe out the effect of something
    - cancel out

Derived forms: wiping out, wipeouts, wiped out, wipes out

See also: wipe

Type of: conclusion, destroy, destruct, do away with, drop, eliminate, ending, expend, extinguish, fall, finish, get rid of, kill, spend, spifflicate, spiflicate, spill, take away, take out, tumble

Encyclopedia: Wipe out

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