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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (6)

1. use up (resources or materials);
- Example: "this car consumes a lot of gas"
- Example: "We exhausted our savings"
- Example: "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
[syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]

2. kill in large numbers;
- Example: "the plague wiped out an entire population"
[syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]

3. eliminate completely and without a trace;
- Example: "The old values have been wiped out"
[syn: wipe out, sweep away]

4. remove from memory or existence;
- Example: "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
[syn: erase, wipe out]

5. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase;
- Example: "kill these lines in the President's speech"
[syn: kill, obliterate, wipe out]

6. wipe out the effect of something;
- Example: "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"
- Example: "The `A' will cancel out the `C'; on your record";
[syn: cancel out, wipe out]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wipe out
    v 1: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot
         of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20
         bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use
         up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe
         out]
    2: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire
       population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish,
       eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]
    3: eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values
       have been wiped out" [syn: wipe out, sweep away]
    4: remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the
       Armenians in 1915" [syn: erase, wipe out]
    5: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in
       the President's speech" [syn: kill, obliterate, wipe
       out]
    6: wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively
       cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on
       your record" [syn: cancel out, wipe out]