"wipe someone's eye" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-wipe someone's eye.ogg Forms: wipes someone's eye [present, singular, third-person], wiping someone's eye [participle, present], wiped someone's eye [participle, past], wiped someone's eye [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} wipe someone's eye (third-person singular simple present wipes someone's eye, present participle wiping someone's eye, simple past and past participle wiped someone's eye)
  1. (idiomatic) To defeat; to defeat humiliatingly. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: wipe someone's nose
    Sense id: en-wipe_someone's_eye-en-verb-IEBNGR51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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