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English verb: wipe out | |||
| 1. | wipe out (consumption) use up (resources or materials) | ||
| Samples | This car consumes a lot of gas. We exhausted our savings. They run through 20 bottles of wine a week. | ||
| Examples | They wipe out more bread | ||
| Synonyms | consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | drop, expend, spend | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | burn, burn off, burn up, drain, exhaust, indulge, luxuriate, play out, run down, run out, sap, spend, tire | ||
| Verb group | occupy, take, use up | ||
| 2. | wipe out (change) kill in large numbers | ||
| Samples | The plague wiped out an entire population. | ||
| Synonyms | annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
| Verb group | decimate | ||
| 3. | wipe out (creation) eliminate completely and without a trace | ||
| Samples | The old values have been wiped out. | ||
| Synonyms | sweep away | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | destroy, destruct | ||
| 4. | wipe out (change) remove from memory or existence | ||
| Samples | The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915. | ||
| Synonyms | erase | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
| 5. | wipe out (change) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | ||
| Samples | Kill these lines in the President's speech. | ||
| Synonyms | kill, obliterate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | take away, take out | ||
| 6. | wipe out (change) wipe out the effect of something | ||
| Samples | The new tax effectively cancels out my raise. The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record. | ||
| Synonyms | cancel out | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of | ||
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