"wipe out" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-wipe out.ogg [Australia] Forms: wipe outs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wipe out (plural wipe outs)
  1. Nonstandard spelling of wipeout (nonstandard but widespread). Tags: alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: wipeout (extra: nonstandard but widespread)
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-noun-qs56qgIU

Verb

Audio: En-au-wipe out.ogg [Australia] Forms: wipes out [present, singular, third-person], wiping out [participle, present], wiped out [participle, past], wiped out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} wipe out (third-person singular simple present wipes out, present participle wiping out, simple past and past participle wiped out)
  1. (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number of people or things); to obliterate. Tags: transitive Translations (to destroy or obliterate): ликвидирам (likvidiram) (Bulgarian), aniquilar (Catalan), anihilar (Catalan), exterminar (Catalan), لەناوبردن (lenawbirdin) (Central Kurdish), tuhota (Finnish), pyyhkäistä pois (Finnish), anéantir (French), განადგურება (ganadgureba) (Georgian), auslöschen (German), vernichten (German), εξαλείφω (exaleífo) (Greek), obliterare (Italian), spazzare via (Italian), eliminare (Italian), annientare (Italian), cancellare dalla terra (Italian), 一掃する (issō suru) (Japanese), 무찌르다 (mujjireuda) (Korean), tipihauraro (Maori), hoepapa (Maori), urupatu (Maori), zniszczyć (Polish), wymazać (Polish), tępić (Polish), aniquilar (Portuguese), exterminar (Portuguese), уничтожа́ть (uničtožátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), уничто́жить (uničtóžitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), истребля́ть (istrebljátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), истреби́ть (istrebítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), sravniti sa zemljom (Serbo-Croatian), aniquilar (Spanish), exterminar (Spanish), utplåna (Swedish), utrota (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-verb-S1p0c48w Disambiguation of 'to destroy or obliterate': 63 8 13 3 5 6 2
  2. (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.). Tags: transitive Translations (to erase): изтривам (iztrivam) (Bulgarian), esborrar (Catalan), vymazat (Czech), pyyhkiä (Finnish), effacer (French), წაშლა (c̣ašla) (Georgian), auswischen (German), ausradieren (German), cancellare (Italian), muku (Maori), muru (Maori), ūkui (Maori), opeope (Maori), wymazać (Polish), apagar (Portuguese), стира́ть (stirátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), стере́ть (sterétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), izbrisati (Serbo-Croatian), borrar (Spanish), radera (Swedish), sudda bort (Swedish), sudda ut (Swedish), sudda (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-verb-F8CmGpSg Disambiguation of 'to erase': 18 35 4 4 26 10 3
  3. (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-verb-KfskBRZR
  4. (transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-verb-AJqt0cv5
  5. (transitive, informal) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance). Tags: informal, transitive Categories (topical): Violence
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-verb-nBcG6pqg Disambiguation of Violence: 13 4 15 18 4 24 13 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English phrasal verbs with particle (out) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 5 15 7 6 31 10 13 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 9 5 14 20 6 27 10 8 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (out): 11 7 11 9 10 31 13 8
  6. (intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.). Tags: intransitive Translations (to crash or fall): kaatua (Finnish), cair (Portuguese), caer (Spanish), välta (Swedish), vurpa (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-verb-maurZt1s Disambiguation of 'to crash or fall': 0 0 0 0 0 100 0
  7. (surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Surfing
    Sense id: en-wipe_out-en-verb-kv0oHMc0 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, surfing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: wipe-out [noun], wipeout [noun]

Inflected forms

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          "text": "a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town",
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          "ref": "1999, “Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, in Star Wars",
          "text": "Darth Sidious: Wipe them out. All of them.",
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          "text": "Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.",
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          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
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          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "განადგურება"
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          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "vernichten"
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          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "issō suru",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "一掃する"
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          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "mujjireuda",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "무찌르다"
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          "word": "لەناوبردن"
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          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "wymazać"
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          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "aniquilar"
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          "lang": "Russian",
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          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "word": "уничтожа́ть"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uničtóžitʹ",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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        {
          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "istrebljátʹ",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "истребля́ть"
        },
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          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "istrebítʹ",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "истреби́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "sravniti sa zemljom"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "aniquilar"
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        {
          "_dis1": "63 8 13 3 5 6 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
          "word": "utplåna"
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          "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
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          "text": "nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups",
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        "To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.)."
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        "(transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.)."
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          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "iztrivam",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "изтривам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "esborrar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "vymazat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "pyyhkiä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "effacer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "c̣ašla",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "წაშლა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "auswischen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "ausradieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "cancellare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "muku"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "muru"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "ūkui"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "opeope"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "wymazać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "apagar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "stirátʹ",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "стира́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sterétʹ",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "стере́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "izbrisati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "borrar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "radera"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "sudda bort"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "sudda ut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 35 4 4 26 10 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to erase",
          "word": "sudda"
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          "text": "trying to wipe out hunger and alleviate despair",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "The leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had dominated headlines in recent weeks with rousing open-air rallies against capitalism, took about 11% and failed in his ultimate aim of beating Le Pen and wiping out the extreme right.",
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        "(transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear."
      ],
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          "text": "An hour of snow shoveling kind of wiped me out more than I expected.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Sandra Gutierrez, The Way Life Used To Be, page 135",
          "text": "I tried to force myself to sound happy even though I was exhausted. Four solid days of finals and studying for them had wiped me out.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out."
      ],
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        [
          "tire (them) out",
          "tire out"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
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          "_dis": "13 5 15 7 6 31 10 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
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          "_dis": "13 4 15 18 4 24 13 10",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violence",
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            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "text": "They tried hard to hang on, but the Great Depression wiped them out.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Unexpected big-ticket expenses wiped out his bank balance.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance)."
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          "bankrupt#Verb"
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        ],
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          "erase"
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          "type": "example"
        },
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        }
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        ],
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        "(intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.)."
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          "word": "kaatua"
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          "word": "cair"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to crash or fall",
          "word": "caer"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
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          "sense": "to crash or fall",
          "word": "välta"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 100 0",
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          "board"
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        "(surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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        "lifestyle",
        "sports",
        "surfing"
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    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
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    "English verbs",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "text": "a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, “Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, in Star Wars",
          "text": "Darth Sidious: Wipe them out. All of them.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 33:41 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04",
          "text": "Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.",
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          "destroy"
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          "obliterate",
          "obliterate"
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        "(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number of people or things); to obliterate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups",
          "type": "example"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.)."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "erase",
          "erase"
        ],
        [
          "writing",
          "writing"
        ],
        [
          "computer",
          "computer"
        ],
        [
          "data",
          "data"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "text": "trying to wipe out hunger and alleviate despair",
          "type": "example"
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          "ref": "2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian",
          "text": "The leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had dominated headlines in recent weeks with rousing open-air rallies against capitalism, took about 11% and failed in his ultimate aim of beating Le Pen and wiping out the extreme right.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do away with; to cause to disappear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do away with",
          "do away with"
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        [
          "disappear",
          "disappear"
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      ],
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        "(transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "text": "An hour of snow shoveling kind of wiped me out more than I expected.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Sandra Gutierrez, The Way Life Used To Be, page 135",
          "text": "I tried to force myself to sound happy even though I was exhausted. Four solid days of finals and studying for them had wiped me out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out."
      ],
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          "exhaust"
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          "tire out"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out."
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        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
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          "text": "They tried hard to hang on, but the Great Depression wiped them out.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Unexpected big-ticket expenses wiped out his bank balance.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance)."
      ],
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        [
          "bankrupt",
          "bankrupt#Verb"
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          "empty",
          "empty"
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          "erase"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, informal) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance)."
      ],
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        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
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          "text": "shot into the half-pipe but then wiped out",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "A massive wave caused him to wipe out.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.)."
      ],
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          "crash"
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          "fall over",
          "fall over"
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          "board"
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          "surfing",
          "surfing"
        ],
        [
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          "skateboarding"
        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Surfing"
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        {
          "text": "A massive wave wiped him out.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To knock (a surfer) off their board."
      ],
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        [
          "surfing",
          "surfing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "knock",
          "knock off"
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        [
          "off",
          "knock off"
        ],
        [
          "board",
          "board"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
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        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports",
        "surfing"
      ]
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "likvidiram",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "ликвидирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "aniquilar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "anihilar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "exterminar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "tuhota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "pyyhkäistä pois"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "anéantir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ganadgureba",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "განადგურება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "auslöschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "vernichten"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "exaleífo",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "εξαλείφω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "obliterare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "spazzare via"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "eliminare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "annientare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "cancellare dalla terra"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "issō suru",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "一掃する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mujjireuda",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "무찌르다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "lenawbirdin",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "لەناوبردن"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "tipihauraro"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "hoepapa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "urupatu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "zniszczyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "wymazać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "tępić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "aniquilar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "exterminar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uničtožátʹ",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "уничтожа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uničtóžitʹ",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "уничто́жить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "istrebljátʹ",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "истребля́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "istrebítʹ",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "истреби́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "sravniti sa zemljom"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "aniquilar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "exterminar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "utplåna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to destroy or obliterate",
      "word": "utrota"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "iztrivam",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "изтривам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "esborrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "vymazat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "pyyhkiä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "effacer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "c̣ašla",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "წაშლა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "auswischen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "ausradieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "cancellare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "muku"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "muru"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "ūkui"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "opeope"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "wymazać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "apagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stirátʹ",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "стира́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sterétʹ",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "стере́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "izbrisati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "borrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "radera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "sudda bort"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "sudda ut"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to erase",
      "word": "sudda"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to crash or fall",
      "word": "kaatua"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to crash or fall",
      "word": "cair"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to crash or fall",
      "word": "caer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to crash or fall",
      "word": "välta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to crash or fall",
      "word": "vurpa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wipe out"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English links with manual fragments",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Violence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wipe outs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wipe out (plural wipe outs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "nonstandard but widespread",
          "word": "wipeout"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonstandard spelling of wipeout (nonstandard but widespread)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wipeout",
          "wipeout#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-wipe out.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/En-au-wipe_out.ogg/En-au-wipe_out.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/En-au-wipe_out.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wipe out"
}

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