Textual thesaurus for "wipe out"

(verb) carry off, extinguish, eliminate, eradicate, decimate, annihilate

kill in large numbers

the plague wiped out an entire population

(verb) cancel out

wipe out the effect of something

The new tax effectively cancels out my raise; The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record

(verb) obliterate, kill

mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

kill these lines in the President's speech

(verb) erase

remove from memory or existence

The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915

(verb) consume, eat, eat up, deplete, run through, use up, exhaust

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

(verb) sweep away

eliminate completely and without a trace

The old values have been wiped out