wipe out
verb
- wipe out: exhaust, use up
Wiktionary
noun
- Nonstandard form of wipeout; nonstandard but widespread.
verb
- To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
“a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town”
“Yasser Arafat (Katz): You do not go far enough General Amin. We must rip their entrails out and drag them from here to Damascus until they include us in the peace process. Muammar Gaddafi (LuJane): No! Nonsense! This solution is not bold enough for Libya. I say wipe out Washington and New York.”
- To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
“nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups”
- To do away with; to cause to disappear.
“trying to wipe out hunger and alleviate despair”
“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.”
- To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out.
“An hour of snow shoveling kind of wiped me out more than I expected.”
“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.”
- To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance).
“They tried hard to hang on, but the Great Depression wiped them out.”
“Unexpected big-ticket expenses wiped out his bank balance.”
- To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
“shot into the half-pipe but then wiped out”
“A massive wave caused him to wipe out.”
- To knock (a surfer) off their board.
“A massive wave wiped him out.”
“I'd like to show you what a wipeout looks like from the board. I'm pretty good at getting wiped out, so I'll be the stooge.”