wipe out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
Transitive verb
verb
To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance).
Informal; Transitive verb
verb
To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
Intransitive verb
noun
Nonstandard form of wipeout; nonstandard but widespread.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Darth Sidious: Wipe them out. All of them."
- "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."
- "nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups"
- "trying to wipe out hunger and alleviate despair"