wipe out
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From the verb 'wipe' and the preposition 'out'.
مثال
- The disease threatened to wipe out the entire population.
- The hurricane wiped out the coastal village.
- The company was wiped out by the economic crisis.
ترکیبهای رایج
Wipe out population Wipe out village Wipe out company
تعریف انگلیسی
verb
- kill in large numbers “the plague wiped out an entire population” “Somebody ----s somebody” “Something ----s somebody”
- use up (resources or materials) “this car consumes a lot of gas” “We exhausted our savings” “They run through 20 bottles of wine a week” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something” “Somebody ----s PP (for: eat)” “They wipe out more bread”
- remove from memory or existence “The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s somebody” “Something ----s somebody” “Something ----s something”
- wipe out the effect of something “The new tax effectively cancels out my raise” “The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record” “Something ----s something”
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase “kill these lines in the President's speech” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something”
- eliminate completely and without a trace “The old values have been wiped out” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s somebody” “Something ----s somebody” “Something ----s something”
مترادفها
Efface, obliterate, erase, expunge, cancel, raze, scratch out, rub out.