"wipe down" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wipes down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiping down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiped down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiped down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wipe down (third-person singular simple present wipes down, present participle wiping down, simple past and past participle wiped down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "wipedown"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "wipe-down"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Please wipe down the kitchen appliances.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The fridge door is grimy. Please wipe it down with some spray cleaner.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1673, Randle Cotgrave, A French and English dictionary, page SIL SIM SIN:",
          "text": "Since. f. A dish-cloth, fleece-cloth, cloth to wipe down tables, or to rub the house.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Mike Gilmore, chapter 29, in Levels of Power: The Legislator, →ISBN, page 160:",
          "text": "\"Officially...no comment,\" Randy answered and he took the damp kitchen towel from Annie and used it to wipe down the countertop of any dish water residue.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean the exterior surface of an object, from top to bottom, typically by hand using a damp dishcloth or other cleaning cloth."
      ],
      "id": "en-wipe_down-en-verb-4dUaM-GZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "from top to bottom",
          "from top to bottom"
        ],
        [
          "dishcloth",
          "dishcloth"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "wipe away"
        },
        {
          "word": "wipe out"
        },
        {
          "word": "wipe up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wipe down"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "wipedown"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "wipe-down"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wipes down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiping down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiped down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wiped down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wipe down (third-person singular simple present wipes down, present participle wiping down, simple past and past participle wiped down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "wipe away"
    },
    {
      "word": "wipe out"
    },
    {
      "word": "wipe up"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English links with manual fragments",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"down\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Please wipe down the kitchen appliances.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The fridge door is grimy. Please wipe it down with some spray cleaner.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1673, Randle Cotgrave, A French and English dictionary, page SIL SIM SIN:",
          "text": "Since. f. A dish-cloth, fleece-cloth, cloth to wipe down tables, or to rub the house.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Mike Gilmore, chapter 29, in Levels of Power: The Legislator, →ISBN, page 160:",
          "text": "\"Officially...no comment,\" Randy answered and he took the damp kitchen towel from Annie and used it to wipe down the countertop of any dish water residue.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean the exterior surface of an object, from top to bottom, typically by hand using a damp dishcloth or other cleaning cloth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "from top to bottom",
          "from top to bottom"
        ],
        [
          "dishcloth",
          "dishcloth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wipe down"
}