wipe-out

Verbs

  • (v) 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
    deplete, use up, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume, eat,
  • (v) kill in large numbers
    • the plague wiped out an entire population
    annihilate, eradicate, decimate, carry off, eliminate, extinguish,
  • (v) eliminate completely and without a trace
    • The old values have been wiped out
    sweep away,
  • (v) remove from memory or existence
    • The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
    erase,
  • (v) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
    • kill these lines in the President's speech
    obliterate, kill,
  • (v) wipe out the effect of something
    • The new tax effectively cancels out my raise
    • The "A" will cancel out the "C" on your record
    cancel out,

Synonyms

deplete use up eat up exhaust run through consume eat annihilate eradicate decimate carry off eliminate extinguish sweep away erase obliterate kill cancel out

Words of close approximity

wipe off