"wipe the floor with someone" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: wipes the floor with someone [present, singular, third-person], wiping the floor with someone [participle, present], wiped the floor with someone [participle, past], wiped the floor with someone [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} wipe the floor with someone (third-person singular simple present wipes the floor with someone, present participle wiping the floor with someone, simple past and past participle wiped the floor with someone)
  1. (informal) To be well ahead of someone, or to win a competition by a considerable margin over someone. Tags: informal Translations (to win a competition by a considerable margin over the other competitors): murskata (Finnish), pyyhkiä lattiaa [with-adessive] (Finnish), écraser (French), battre à plate couture (French), réduire en miettes (French), jemanden nass machen (German), sopa banan med någon (Swedish), yer bezi yapmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-wipe_the_floor_with_someone-en-verb-p2VF6vOa Categories (other): English predicates Disambiguation of English predicates: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'to win a competition by a considerable margin over the other competitors': 97 3
  2. (informal) To comprehensively beat someone in a fight. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-wipe_the_floor_with_someone-en-verb-XpWxOCdX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 18 82 Disambiguation of English predicates: 53 47 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: mop the floor with someone

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      "sense": "to win a competition by a considerable margin over the other competitors",
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      "word": "réduire en miettes"
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      "word": "jemanden nass machen"
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