wipe
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Verb (1)wipes, wiped, wiping
Noun (1)wipes
- the act of rubbing or wiping“he gave the hood a quick rub”Synonyms: rubType of contact, physical contactKinds scuff
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Translations
Verb to rub in order to remove surface substance
- Spanish
- limpiar
- French
- essuyer
- German
- wischen
- Italian
- pulire
- Portuguese
- limpar
- Turkish
- silmek
- Russian
- вытира́ть vytirátʹ
- Arabic
- مَسَحَ masaḥa
- Chinese
- 抹 mǒ
- Japanese
- 拭く fuku
24 more languages
- Dutch
- vegen
- Polish
- wycierać
- Swedish
- torka
- Greek
- σκουπίζω skoupízo
- Korean
- 닦다 dakda
- Indonesian
- seka
- Vietnamese
- chùi
- Hungarian
- töröl
- Portuguese (PT)
- enxugar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 擦 cā
- Catalan
- eixugar
- Czech
- utírat
- Danish
- tørre
- Esperanto
- viŝi
- Estonian
- pühkima
- Finnish
- pyyhkiä
- Latvian
- slaucīt
- Norwegian
- viske
- Romanian
- șterge
- Scottish Gaelic
- sguab
- Serbo-Croatian
- brisati
- Swahili
- pangusa
- Walloon
- xhorbi
- Yiddish
- ווישן vishn
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. Sw. vipa, Dan. vibe, the lapwing.
Zoology The lapwing. dialect (England)
Origin: OE. vipen, AS. wīpian; cf. LG. wiep a wisp of straw, Sw. vepa to wrap up, to cuddle one's self up, vepa a blanket; perhaps akin to E. whip.
1. To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.
Let me wipe thy face.— William Shakespeare
I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.— 2 Kings xxi. 13.
2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; — usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively. “To wipe out our ingratitude.” William Shakespeare
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.— John Milton
3. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; — usually followed by out. obsolete Edmund Spenser
If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.— Raphe Robynson
To wipe a joint Plumbing, to make a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe, by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing. — To wipe the nose of, to cheat. Old Slang
1. Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
2. A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe. informal
3. A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm. Jonathan Swift
4. A handkerchief. Thieves' Cant or Slang
5. Stain; brand. obsolete “Slavish wipe.” William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54