wipe out

Verb (6)

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”Synonyms: consumeeat upuse upeatdepleteexhaustrun throughuseexpendMore general spend, expendMore specific spend, waste, pervert, run down, indulge, drain, burn off, run out, abuse, spare
2. kill in large numbers“the plague wiped out an entire population”Synonyms: eliminateannihilateextinguisheradicatedecimatecarry offMore general killSimilar decimate
3. eliminate completely and without a trace“The old values have been wiped out”Synonyms: sweep awayMore general destroy, destruct
4. remove from memory or existence“The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915”Synonyms: eraseMore general kill
5. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase“kill these lines in the President's speech”Synonyms: killobliterateMore general take away, take 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”Synonyms: cancel outMore general extinguish, eliminate