Word: Wipe
How to pronounce: waɪp
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Clean or dry (something) by rubbing its surface with a cloth, a piece of paper, or one's hand.
Example sentences: "Paul wiped his face with a handkerchief"
2. Remove or eliminate (something) completely.
Example sentences: "Things have happened to wipe the smile off Kate's face"
3. Erase data from (a computer system or electronic or magnetic storage device)
Example sentences: "I discovered all of my hard drives had been wiped"
Noun
Definitions:
1. An act of wiping.
Example sentences: "Bert was giving the machine a final wipe over with an oily rag"
2. A disposable cloth treated with a cleansing agent, for wiping things clean.
Example sentences: "I keep a box of final wipes in my desk at work and grab one or two when ever I go to the bathroom."
3. A cinematographic effect in which an existing picture seems to be wiped out by a new one as the boundary between them moves across the screen.
Example sentences: "Split screen, weird wipes, floating frames and fades - they guy does everything possible to replicate the look of a comic page, shy of actually shooting one on an animation stand."
Synonyms:
mop
rubbing
clean
blot
erase
rub
efface
wash
obliterate
rub out
destroy
wipe out
annihilate
mop up
wipe up
dry
wipe down
liquidate
eliminate
exterminate
Derivations:
wiping
wiped
wiper
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Wipe in Other Languages...
Spanish: Limpiar
German: Wischen
French: Essuyer
Italian: Pulire
Turkish: Silme
