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1. An event that completely destroys something
   - destruction, demolition
    
2. (sport) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)

1. Use (resources or materials) over time in order to function
   - 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
   "wipe out these lines in the President's speech";
   - kill, obliterate
    
6. Wipe out the effect of something
   "The new tax effectively wipes out my raise";
   - cancel out

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

Type of: conclusion, destroy, destruct, do away with, drop, eliminate, ending, expend, extinguish, fall, finish, fish out [informal], get rid of, kill, spend, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], spill, take away, take out, tumble, uncreate [literary]

Encyclopedia: Wipeout