wipen.
/wʌɪp/, U.S. /waɪp/ 1.
a. An act of wiping (in senses 1 – 3 of wipe v.).In first quot. in figurative phr.: see wipe v. 10a.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [noun] > act of
wipe1642
emuncture1674
tersion1675
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. vii. 388 That which hath sharpned the pens of many against him, is his giving so many cleanly wipes to the foul noses of the Pope and Italian Prelacy.
1850 G. Cupples Green Hand iv. 49/2 Here the worthy man took off his large spectacles, gave them a wipe, and put them on again.
1859 Househ. Encycl. II. 401/2 If the spit is carefully wiped after roasting,..it will require nothing more than a wipe before using.
1885 J. B. Gough Platform Echoes 69 He had been in the mine, and had evidently given himself a splash and a wipe.
1888 J. W. Clarke Mod. Plumbing Pract. (1914) I. 168 Some men can take longer ‘wipes’ than others, but the wipes should always be done as quickly as possible.
b. With adverbs, in various literal and figurative senses.
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1821 P. Egan Real Life in London I. 322 A brush to give the gemman a wipe down.
1884 D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 4) 165 Do not wait until her bowsprit is over your quarter before you luff, but take a wipe out across her when she is fifty yards off or so.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 138 Those more particular gave them [sc. the tin platters] a rough wipe-out with a piece of paper.
1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black xviii. 371 This vile fly means sleeping sickness, and sleeping sickness means a wipe-out.
c. Cinematography and Television. An effect in which an existing picture seems to be wiped out by a new one as the boundary between them moves across the screen (the pictures themselves remaining stationary). Originally wipe-dissolve.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > devices
fade-out1918
lap-dissolve1927
wipe1933
jump cut1953
optical1953
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] > others
mix1922
iris-in1929
iris-out1929
superimposition1931
wipe1933
hanging miniature1937
matched dissolve1953
match dissolve1959
super1959
multiple image1965
1933 Cinema Q. 2 i. 43 I..deplored the constant use of wipe-dissolves to cover the weak continuity.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 263 There is no real equivalent in music even of the ‘wipe-dissolve’ which leads the eye gently but quickly from one scene to another.
1936 A. Brunel Film Production 43 It may be argued that wipes are not easily achieved.
1960 Guardian 8 June 7/3 A special effects generator..enables 20,000 different shades of ‘wipe’ to be deployed... It makes a fascinating variety of shapes and devices upon the screen.
1979 Broadcast 1 Oct. 54/2 Within the SqueeZoomed sequence of archive TV shots..Tony Rayner inserted two wipes to blue..which allow live ‘headline’ shots from that day's programme to be chromakeyed in.
2. † b. transferred. A mark as of a blow or lash; a scar or brand. poetic. Obsolete.† c. colloquial. An act of drinking: cf. swipe n.2 3.
a. A slashing blow, a sweeping cut, a swipe; also figurative (in early use esp. in phraseological expressions, e.g. a wipe over the shins; also, a ‘blow of Fortune’, a stroke of misfortune; a wipe in the eye: a disappointment or rebuff; = a smack in the eye at smack n.2 3a; cf. wipe v. 10d).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > striking a swinging blow > a swinging stroke or blow
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wipe?1545
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swiper1853
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > severe or sudden > a stroke (of misfortune, etc.)
clapc1330
buffetc1400
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wipe?1545
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bludgeoning1888
?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Iiijv He [sc. the Beast] had a greuouse wype with the sworde (which is the lyuynge worde of the lorde) whan he lost his monkes [etc.].
1568 T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 117 When cruell fate them cleane cut of, at one most soden wipe.
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 375 The beginners of quarrelles do sometime catch a wype.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome B He hath giuen the cause sicken a wipe in his bricke,..that the cause will be the warmer..for it.
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C ij The second venue the Welch-man hath bestowed vpon vs, is a wipe ouer the shinnes of the Non Residents.
1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iv. x So much for single Rapier: now for your secret wipe at Back-sword.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 107 The least wipe of the eye troubles us more then a hard stroak upon the back.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) That story gave him a fine wipe.
1788 P. Thicknesse Sketch Life Gainsborough 43 When a certain Duchess sent to know the reason why her picture was not sent home? he gave it a wipe in the face with his back-ground-brush.
1808 Sir J. Moore in Jas. C. Moore Narr. Campaign (1809) 297 It will be very agreeable to give a wipe to such a corps.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 39/1 The cove used to fetch me a wipe over the knuckles with his stick.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vi. 100 There's the scar of the wipe he got when he was cut over.
1926 T. E. Lawrence Let. 6 Apr. (1938) 495 Your statement that the hospital passage would be a wipe in the eye for 19 readers out of 20 puts it out of court.
1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home iii. iii. 236 It was a wipe in the eye for John the way he was getting out.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > mark of blow > weal
walea1100
stripec1440
yedderc1440
scrat1542
wipe1594
whelka1761
wheal1811
weal1821
wealing1902
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. E1v The blemish..Worse then a slauish wipe, or birth howrs blot.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun]
drinkc888
draughtc1200
drinkingc1200
wetting1340
beveragec1390
receipta1393
bever1499
potation1509
quaff1579
watering1598
wipe1600
sorbition1623
imbibation1826
imbibition1844
bibition1853
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Sat. vi. E 6 b We gaue the Brewers Diet-drinke a wipe.
3. figurative. A cutting remark; a sarcastic reproof or rebuff; a jeer, jibe.In quot. 15961 in colourless sense, = ‘remark’.
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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > commenting or mentioning > comment or remark
speechc1305
mindc1350
touchc1400
to make reporturec1475
observation1564
wipe1596
remark1629
propos1816
comment1850
by-the-way1896
trailer1941
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [noun] > instance of
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wipe1596
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quib1656
trait1704
skit1727
slant1825
ironism1842
wiper1846
by-quip1855
satirization1868
snapper1890
crack1896
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > [noun] > instance of
quippy1519
quip1532
taunta1566
slent?1567
wipe1596
quib1656
trait1704
slant1825
wisecrack1924
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 39 This as a wype be the way [L. ut hoc obiter dicam].
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 263 This I thocht necessar heir to make mentione of, as a Wype be the way, that all baith ffrenche and Scotis may vndirstand, that be God, this band, to the confimatione of baith the Realmes, Was confirmet, be this taken, first for the disagriment of the Nobilitie amang thame selfes concerneng the samyn band: [etc.].
1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors 286 For his labour [he] receives a wipe at the hands of Bellarmine.
a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 96 The Lord Treasurer gave him a wipe, for suffering his Coachman to ride bare before him in the streets.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 333 It was an ill wipe to Mr. Grove who brought in the Declaration.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy v. ii So, that's a wipe for me now, because I did not give her a New-Years-Gift last time.
1733 J. Swift On Poetry 8 To Statesman wou'd you give a Wipe, You print it in Italick Type.
1822 J. Galt Provost xxxi. 237 I did not much like this bantering of Mr. M‘Queerie..I said, ‘Come, come, neighbour, none of your wipes.’
1897 Westm. Gaz. 25 Oct. 2/2 The extraordinary ‘wipe’ (there is no other word for it) which the staid old Quarterly administers..to the Poet Laureate.
4.
a. slang. A handkerchief. (Superseding the earlier wiper n. 2.) Also in combinations.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief
coverchiefc1305
cloutc1380
muckender1420
napkin1436
handkerchief1530
handkercher1531
mocket1537
wiper1587
nose-cloth1589
pocket handkerchief1645
handcloth1676
mouchoira1685
pocket-clotha1704
wipe1708
volet1789
kerchief1814
snotter1823
lachrymatory1825
nose-rag1840
nose-wiper1840
sweat-rag1843
lachrymary1854
sneezer1857
stook1859
snottinger1864
snot-rag1888
hanky1895
penwiper1902
paper handkerchief1907
nose-wipe1919
snitch-rag1940
paper hankie1959
1708 Mem. John Hall 10 Wipe, a Handkerchief.
1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 129 I only napt a couple of bird's eye wipes.
1800 Sporting Mag. 16 26 Three boys brought in for prigging of wipes.
1800 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1801) 4 254 The wipe-nabbers made a tolerable gleaning.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. viii. 130 ‘Is Fagin up stairs?’ ‘Yes, he's a sortin' the wipes.’
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 125 The ‘case of wipes’, as an irreverent bystander called the procès of the pickpocket.
b. A disposable piece of soft absorbent cloth or tissue, sometimes impregnated with a cleansing agent, for wiping clean one's hands or anything small.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [noun] > material for wiping with
wisp1362
wiper1587
wipard1653
J-cloth1967
wipe1971
1971 Textile Industries Dec. 50/1 Towels, Covers, Pads, and Wipes.
1974 R. Hawkey & R. Bingham Wild Card ix. 87 Half-empty boxes of medical wipes lying on the ultra~centrifuge.
1978 ‘M. Yorke’ Point of Murder ii. 19 Kate's hands had got oily..but she kept some tissue wipes in the car.
1980 Chem. in Brit. 16 449/4 For situations where protective gloves are inconvenient, Chicopee has brought out Dermawipe impregnated hand wipes.
5. = wiper n. 5. Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > tappet
tapon1640
tappet1745
wiper1796
wipe1884
1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism II. 375 A piece of mechanism (commonly called a Commutator, or wippe).]
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron xvi. 308 The cam..is a revolving wheel with twelve or fourteen projecting teeth or wipes.
1905 Motor Year-bk. 221 The wipe commutator is placed inside the bonnet projecting upwards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
wipev.
/wʌɪp/, U.S. /waɪp/ 1. absolute.1614 W. Alexander Doomes-day ii. xcix. sig. H Thus Waters wash, Winds wipe, and both conspire, That Earth so purg'd may be prepar'd for Fire.† b. To rub, stroke. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To rub (something) gently with a soft cloth or the like, or on something, so as to clear its surface of dust, dirt, moisture, etc.; to clean or dry in this way. Also with complement.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > clean by wiping [verb (transitive)]
wipec960
wipec1400
absterge1526
sweep?1533
emunge-
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > clean by wiping [verb (transitive)] > wipe away dirt, etc.
wipec960
wipec1000
wipe1398
scuff1818
c960 Æthelwold Rule St. Benet (1885) xxxv. 59 Wæterclaðas..þe hy heora handa and fet mid wipedan.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 426 Ic geseo Godes engel standende ætforan ðe mid hand-claðe, and wipaþ ðine swatigan limu.
c1200 Vices & Virtues 125 Wassce and wipe wol clane ða eiȝene.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11123 Heo wipeden hors leoue mid linnene claðe.
c1300 K. Horn (Laud) 622 Horn gan hys swerd gripe And on his arm hyt wipe.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 195 I-wipet with a wesp of Firsen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17683 Quen he wipped had mi face.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15300 And wit his tueil efterward þair fete he weped clene.
c1400 Mandeville xxvii. [xxiii.] (1919) 165 Whan þei han eten, þei wypen hire hondes vpon hire skirtes.
1486 Bk. St. Albans C viij She bekyth when she sewith: that is to say she wypith hir beke.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 647 Quhen the king saw thai war ded,..he wyppit his brand.
c1500 Young Children's Bk. (Ashm. 61) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 23 Wype thi mouthe when þou wyll drinke.
1508 J. Stanbridge Vulgaria (W. de W.) B iij Wype thy nose.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 136 Whan she lacketh cloutes, without any fayle She wyped her disshes wyth her dogges tayle.
1610 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 191 To a boie that wyped bootes, iijd.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 122 We haue..sat at good mens feasts, and wip'd our eies Of drops, that sacred pity hath engendred. View more context for this quotation
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 385 Though a bishop toil to cleanse the stain, He wipes and scours the silver cup in vain.
1806 J. Carr Stranger in Ireland 269 A large Newfoundland dog..walks round the table for the guests to wipe their fingers upon.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous vii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 188 Wiping his lips, after having finished his draught.
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son liii. 525 Stopping on the mat to wipe his shoes all round.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxii The Major had swum out and was standing on the rock wiping himself.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > stroking > stroke [verb (transitive)]
strokec897
strikec1000
wipe1362
streakc1440
to stroke over1822
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)]
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gnoddec1230
rudc1300
ruba1325
wipe1362
freta1400
labour?a1475
wrive1481
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chafe1526
friga1529
fricace1579
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affricate1656
fricate1716
frictionize1853
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 212 Þenne he wakede of his wynk and wypede his eiȝen.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 265 Then toke Iude þe lettyr þat Cryst send to þe kyng befor, and weput þe kyngys forhede þerwyth.
?1511 Treat. Joseph of Armathy (de Worde) sig. A.iv Thenne he toke me by the hande frome the grounde and wyped my face with a rose and kyssed me.
c. absol. = dry v. 1c. Also with up. Cf. wash v. 1i.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > wash table utensils [verb (intransitive)] > dry table utensils
to dry up1932
dry1935
wipe1943
1943 L. I. Wilder These Happy Golden Years xxi. 192 Neither of you need worry about the dishes... I'll wash and Grace will wipe.
1962 M. Duffy That's how it Was xiii. 115 Billy washes, Arthur wipes, you put away.
1968 R. V. Beste Repeat Instruct. ii. 19 He wiped while Huskion..scrubbed away in the sink.
1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me vii. 169 I was helping Mrs Hope wipe up in the kitchen.
1981 A. Wilson in T. Thompson Edwardian Childhoods iii. 78 One'd wipe and one'd wash—we didn't make hard work of it.
d. (a) To demagnetize (a ship) by passing a horizontal current-carrying cable up and down the hull. (b) To remove a recording from (magnetic tape).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > demagnetize ship
wipe1946
1946 ‘L. Luard’ Changing Horizons 145 ‘No complaints, except she's steel.’ ‘And not wiped or degaussed,’ the Skipper commented.
1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War 171 He arranged that ships should be ‘wiped’ with temporary horizontal coils.
1962 R. W. Clark Rise of Boffins iv. 95 Demagnetizing the ships..by ‘wiping’ the sides..with a horizontal cable carrying a strong current.
1962 E. Salter Voice of Peacock xx. 203 In the case of auditions, the tape was sometimes wiped so's it could be used again.
1965 D. Francis Odds Against x. 137 I wiped the tape clean.
1980 Listener 8 May 594/2 I presume the BBC wiped, as they say, the original tape.
2. † b. (with away, out) To obliterate, efface, erase. Obsolete as a specific sense.† c. transferred and gen. To remove, clear away or off (something deleterious or offensive). Obsolete.
a. To remove or clear away (moisture, dust, etc.) from something by the action described in sense 1. Often with away, off, up.Also formerly in extended sense, e.g. of a cleansing substance.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > unscrupulously or rapaciously
wipec1000
scamble1599
ruffle1608
scramble1647
grab1801
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > clean by wiping [verb (transitive)] > wipe away dirt, etc.
wipec960
wipec1000
wipe1398
scuff1818
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > take by swindling
wipec1000
fleece1537
fraud1570
shark1613
boba1616
foola1616
rook1647
sharp1707
escroc1738
swindle1779
skelder1822
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 4 Lege on hunig ðreo niht, nim þonne & wipa þæt hunig of.
a1240 Sawles Warde in Old Eng. Hom. I. 261 Þat haueð alle teares iwipet of hare ehnen.
a1300 K. Horn (Cambr.) 1203 He wipede þat blake of his swere.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 188 He had a cloth.., forto wepen away þe terys.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxv. B The Lorde God shal wipe awaye the teares from all faces.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3380 Whipe vp þi teris.
1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 375 Hauing first wipt of the dust well.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc2v The Goddesse..With her soft garment wipes away the gore.
1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xlix, in Steps to Temple 67 With her soft wing wipt from the browes of men Day's sweat.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. ii. 8 They should have wiped it up, said my uncle Toby, and said no more about it.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxvii. 18 Now took courage to wipe off the perspiration, which had been trickling over his nose.
1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xx. 83 She groaned and wiped away a tear.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)]
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washc1380
fade1398
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out-razec1425
racec1450
enrasea1492
stramp1535
wipe1535
facec1540
cancel1559
outblot1573
to wash out1580
to blur out1581
obliterate1607
efface1611
dislimna1616
excerebrate1621
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rufflea1680
erase1695
scrub1828
overscore1834
elide1846
trash1859
to wipe (off) the slate1921
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.)
harryc893
fordoc900
awesteeOE
westeeOE
losec950
harrowc1000
destroyc1230
wastec1275
ravishc1325
to lie waste1338
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to-wastea1382
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desolatea1425
vast1434
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to lay waste1535
wipe1535
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scourge1576
dispopulate1588
destitute1593
ravage1602
harassa1618
devastate1638
execute1679
to make stroy of1682
to lay in ashes1711
untown1783
hell-rake1830
uncity1850
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxviii[i]. 28 Let them be wyped out of ye boke of the liuynge.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 232v Augustus had writen a tragedie entitleed Aiax, and ye same tragedie..(because it myslyked hym) he wyped out with a spounge.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiii. 217 If ye meane fortune as she is peynted by the Poets,..it is as easie to wype her away as to paynt her.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 112 They are allowed a Board plastered over, which with Cotton they wipe out, when full, as we do from Slates.
1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) I. xvi. 447 Your Majesty has wiped away with the soft part of the pen, what the British Minister thought he had written so deeply.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > clean by wiping [verb (transitive)] > wipe away dirt, etc.
wipec960
wipec1000
wipe1398
scuff1818
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. i. L ij b/1 Water..wypeth of fylthe and wasshyth awaye synnes.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. v. sig. Q8v Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget His former payne, and wypt away his toilsom sweat.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xxxiv. 243 That turneps..wipe away the spots of the face.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. xi. 148 Till coldest aire..And heav'ns cleare forehead now wipes off her former lowres.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 66 Wipe your fat corpulencies out of our light.
a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) III. 39 To weepe off this manchinge staine.
d. To erase (a magnetic recording, or data stored on a magnetic medium). Frequently with off, out.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > electronic material
wipe1900
erase1945
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > remove recording
wipe1900
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 758/1 When it is desired to wipe out a record, the electromagnet..is attached to a constant battery and run over the wire, thus magnetising it uniformly once more and preparing it to receive a new message.
1934 Wireless World 5 Jan. 8/3 When a record is no longer required, the programme recorded on the strip can be ‘wiped out’.
1976 Broadcast 23 Aug. 10/3 He was staggered at the quantity of programmes in which James MacTaggart had been involved. Most of it has been wiped.
1981 Times 4 July 10/3 This is a three-hour reusable tape with an hour's quite sophisticated cabaret already recorded, which you can keep or wipe off.
1984 Computerworld 26 Mar. 14/2 If one formats an IBM Personal Computer XT and does not indicate which drive to format, the machine formats the hard disk and wipes out all data on it.
e. (Without prep.) To dismiss, reject, repudiate (esp. a person). Australian and New Zealand slang.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject or cast off a person
refusec1390
wavescha1400
denyc1400
rejectc1450
replya1500
repudiate1534
to fling off1587
reprobate1747
veto1839
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) the elbow1938
wipe1941
1941 K. Tennant Battlers 196 Giving her money..in the casual manner that wiped her from all consideration as a human being.
1946 Coast to Coast 1945 123 Listen pal—your girl wiped you, didn't she?
1948 Landfall June 111 Hands in pockets, shoulders hunched, he strode bitterly up the street from the pub. He'd wipe them, have nothing to do with the morons.
1954 T. A. G. Hungerford Sowers of Wind 162 She dumped me, wiped me like a dirty nose.
1967 F. Sargeson Hangover xiv. 124 If it came to that one of his reasons for wiping university was a senior lecturer who had failed to avoid the same gross error.
1975 R. Beilby Brown Land Crying 295 You can wipe that idea, if that's what you're thinking.
3. To apply or spread a soft or liquid substance over the surface of a body by rubbing it on with a cloth, pad, or the like (with the substance or the body as object); spec. in Plumbing, to apply solder by this method so as to unite and finish off a joint.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance > smear (a substance)
cleamc1000
smeara1400
spread?a1425
strike1525
splet1530
dab1592
stroke1594
sponge1607
daub1647
wipe1738
plaster1799
teerc1850
slather1866
cake1944
society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [verb (transitive)] > solder joints
wipe1888
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory i. 23 With this Liquid wipe over your Gilding.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 287 [article Gun-maker] Nitrous acid, which contains gas, and is slightly wiped on in stripes.
1888 J. W. Clarke Mod. Plumbing Pract. (1914) I. 100 If the cloths are of a good thickness the joints can be wiped much truer.
4. figurative (from 1.) To clear, cleanse (from or of something); in the biblical passage, to empty completely, lay waste.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > clean by wiping [verb (transitive)]
wipec960
wipec1400
absterge1526
sweep?1533
emunge-
c1400 Pety Job 211 in 26 Pol. Poems 127 Thus with wepyng haue I wypt My soule..from dedly synne.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xxi. 13 I..wyll wype out Ierusalem, euen as one wypeth a platter [1560 (Geneva), I wil wipe Ierusalem, as a man wipeth a dish].
1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 94 The happy..faculty of wiping their minds clear of harassing thought.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of)
benimc890
to do of ——eOE
bedealc1000
disturbc1230
bereavec1275
reave?a1300
acquitc1300
benemec1300
deprivec1330
privea1382
subvertc1384
oppressc1395
abridgea1400
to bate of, from1399
lessa1400
nakena1400
dischargea1425
privatec1425
to bring outa1450
abatec1450
sever?1507
spulyie?1507
denude1513
disable1529
distrain1530
destituec1540
destitutec1540
defalk1541
to turn out of ——1545
discomfit1548
wipe1549
nude1551
disannul?a1556
bereft1557
diminish1559
benoom1563
joint1573
uncase1583
rid1585
disarm1590
visitc1592
ease1600
dispatch1604
unfurnisha1616
rig1629
retrench1640
unbecomea1641
disentail1641
cashier1690
twin1722
mulct1748
fordo1764
to do out of ——1796
to cut out1815
bate1823
deprivate1832
devoid1878
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Jas. i. f. xxvi He shall..bee wyped besydes al his goodes.
1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Hiiij My Ladies Maydes will wype the Page, Alwayes of such an heritage.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. E2 To wipe me cleane for euer being king.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. F2v Hath he not wip't me from the Turkish crowne?
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 6 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The English, which they thinke lye still in waite to wype them out of their Lands.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. G2/1 You foole us of our moneys.., in every Quiddit wipe us.
1678 Donna Olimpia 84 Seeing her self clearly wiped of that Interest.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. x. 56 The wily Harlot, and the Slave, who join To wipe the Miser of his darling Coin.
6. (from 2.) To clear away, remove: most commonly with adverb (away, off, out).† b. To take away completely, as by theft or fraud; to make off with. (Cf. 5) Obsolete.1841 R. Browning Pippa Passes ii, in Bells & Pomegranates No. I 9/1 And wipe with the first lunge My foe's whole life out, like a spunge.a1842 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1845) I. iv. 237 So completely wiping a man out of existence.1903 Athenæum 17 Jan. 71/3 The competition of railways, which has wiped out the steamers of the Mississippi.1861 Jrnl. Discourses (1862) IX. 112 Many of the officers went away saying, ‘We will come by-and-by and wipe you out.’1865 A. C. Swinburne Hymn to Proserpine in Poems & Ballads 14 O Gods dethroned and deceased, cast forth, wiped out in a day.1889 R. Kipling Drums of fore & Aft in Wee Willie Winkie 103 But for want of fresh troops, the Afghans would have been wiped off the earth.1898 Cent. Mag. Apr. 925/2 A tragedy which wiped out an entire crew.1968 J. Philips Hot Summer Killing iii. i. 129 Is he the one who was wiped earlier tonight in the Molyneaux Hotel?1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 47 They decided to find a way to get rid of him, to wipe him out.1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 12 Sept. 40/2 You could be wiped out if you moved a single inch.1980 J. McClure Blood of Englishman ii. 18 Someone tried to wipe Bradshaw... The shot caught him here in the collar-bone.† g. (with off) To get quit or clear of (an unpleasant task). Obsolete. rare.
a. To take away, put away (something figured as a stain or defilement); to remove the guilt, blame, or dishonour of; to clear a person, or oneself, of (a charge or imputation).
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > exculpate > blame or an imputation
wipe1387
salve1685
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 131 Whanne þe mescheef of his takynge was i-wyped of.
c1410 T. Hoccleve Mother of God 31 O blessid lady,..Þat by prayere wypest cleene away The filthes of our synful wikkidnesse.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Miiiv The good lyfe..wypeth awaye the synnes.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xxxvi. 114 To the entent to wipe that spot of cowardice wherewith hee had blemished his reputation.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xv. 140 To wipe off jealousies and scandals, the best way had bin by clear Actions.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 66 By his Fidelity to wipe out all that was past.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vii. iii. 149 One of those chiefs, indignant at the imputation, determined..to wipe it off at any risk.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 431 There died Godwine,..wiping out, by a valiant death, the errors of an earlier stage of his life.
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c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 286/296 Al þat ich habbe i-wonne a-day.., I-wyped it is al clene a-wey ase it neuere nere.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. iii. sig. Sivv That he maye wype awaye all the money of this man.
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 74 They deceatfully & fraudulently wyped their money from them.
1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 55 Hee wiped away from the people such heapes of money as [etc.].
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 151 The Priest..wipes away to his chamber all that which the poor..Indians had offered.
c. To destroy the trace of, obliterate, efface; to destroy the effect or value of, bring to nought.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence
dilghec897
defacec1386
annul1395
anientec1400
refer?c1400
extinct1484
annihil1490
delete1495
out-terma1500
perspoil1523
extaintc1540
extinguish1555
blot1561
wipe1564
to cut the throat of1565
annihilate1567
dissipatea1575
annihilate1586
nullify1609
nullize1615
expunge1628
nothing1637
null1647
extramund1654
be-nothing1674
erase1728
obliterate1798
simoom1821
to tear to shreds1837
snuff1852
mop1859
to take out1900
napoo1915
naught1958
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by rubbing
planec1350
to rub outc1400
to rub offa1425
sponge1548
wipe1564
spongea1636
sponge1720
smear1838
1564 Briefe Exam. *iij b I must nedes wype a great many out of their brotherhood.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 210 I knew of this before, but..This present griefe had wipte it from my mind. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. ii. 10 As thou lou'st me (Camillo) wipe not out the rest of thy seruices, by leauing me now. View more context for this quotation
1704 C. Leslie Wolf Stript 50 But all they have done before, is wip'd clean off!
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 125 Every period of linguistic life..wipes out a part of the intermediates which connect a derived element with its original.
1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner v. 47 The anxiety wiped away from his face as if by magic.
1901 Scotsman 1 Mar. 7/4 Last week the questions reached a total which had never before been known. This afternoon that record was wiped out, and another established.
d. To do away with, put an end to, abolish, annihilate. Now always with out.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 129 The tyrannycal..instytutyonys..left here among us whych al schold be wypt away by the receyvyng of thys wych we cal the veray cyvyle law.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. 468 If yee had not vtterly wypte al shame from your faces.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 108 My haruest wast, my hope away dyd wipe.
e. spec. To put all to death, destroy completely, exterminate (a body of persons); usually with out. Also (slang), to kill (a person); also with out.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [verb (transitive)]
to bathe in bloodc1300
murderc1325
to make larder ofa1330
spend1481
to lick upa1500
slaught1535
butcher1562
wipe1577
slaughter1586
massacre1588
dispeople1596
shamble1601
depeople?1611
mow1615
internecate1623
dislaughter1661
mop1899
pogrom1915
decimate1944
overkill1946
the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > murder or assassinate [verb (transitive)]
amurderOE
murderc1175
homicidec1470
murdresc1480
murtrish1490
manquell1548
slaughter1582
massacre1591
assassinate1600
remove1609
assassin1620
to do the business for a person1759
Septembrize1794
croak1823
square1888
shift1898
to take out1900
to bump off1907
bump1914
to do in1914
to put out1917
to knock off1919
terminate1920
to give (a person) the works1929
scrag1930
snuff1932
wash1941
waste1964
wipe1968
to terminate with extreme prejudice1969
neutralize1970
snuff1973
stiff1974
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. i. sig. G.v/2 The Chananites were wiped away bycause of their incest.
f. (with off, rarely †out) To cancel (an account or score); to discharge, pay off (a debt).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (transitive)]
quit?c1225
acquita1250
to pay up1434
satisfy1437
discharge1439
defease1480
persolve1548
solve1558
defray1576
affray1584
clear1600
to pay off1607
extinguish1630
to lay downa1640
wipe1668
settle1688
sink1694
retrieve1711
to clear up1726
balance1740
liquidate1755
to clear off1766
square1821
amortize1830
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all ii. 24 All this is since the last reckoning was wip'd out.
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 48 For this time I wipe off your score. Till you 're caught tripping in some new amour.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxi. 133 Lovelace..like an absolved confessionaire, wipes off, as he goes along, one score, to begin another.
1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus xliii Many an old score of rebellion not yet wiped off between himself and the king.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 187 A sum which has to go to wipe off a few of your most pressing mortgages.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > get or be rid of > specifically a thing
flita1375
unlade1548
degorge1622
abstrude1628
wipe1655
1655 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 13 I am glad..that you have wipt off that dirty & wett journey so fairely without prejudice to yor health.
h. to wipe (an expression, esp. a smile) off a person's or one's face: (to cause him) to cease showing it. slang.
ΚΠ
1567 [see sense 6d].
1895 J. Conrad Almayer's Folly xii. 256 A face from which all feelings and all expression are suddenly wiped off by the hand of unexpected death.
1898 [see sense 6c]. 1935 Time 24 June 28/1 Wipe dat smile offen his face!
1936 D. Carnegie How to win Friends ii. ii. 99 Bill, you are going to wipe the scowl off that sour puss of yours today.
1972 D. S. Viscott Making of Psychiatrist ii. 37 Terry O'Conner seemed to think it was funny but wiped the smile off her face every time her eye caught Larry's.
1977 Observer 14 Aug. 3/7 Only one sentence would have wiped the smile off Mason's face.
1978 G. Greene Human Factor vi. i. 305 She realised she was smiling at the telephone—thank God, they hadn't yet invented a visual telephone, but all the same she wiped the smile off her face.
i. passive or intransitive. Surfing. To be knocked from one's surfboard. With out. slang.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)] > be knocked off
wipe1962
1962 T. Masters Surfing made Easy 66 Wiped out, getting knocked off of a surfboard, usually by a wave.
1965 S. Afr. Surfer I. iii. 33 Each situation, from being locked-in to wiped-out, is entirely dependent on how the surfer uses the wave.
1966 Weekly News (N.Z.) 19 Jan. 6/3 When ‘wiping-out’ a surfer should try to hold his board.
1968 Surfer Jan. 48/2 Frye misjudged one of his turns high in the curl and wiped-out in the white water.
7. † b. (with away, off) To strike off, cut off at a blow. Obsolete. rare.
a. To strike, beat, or attack (with blows, or with mockery, sarcasm, rebuke, or the like). Now dialect or slang.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures
fangc1320
hurtlec1374
impugnc1384
weighc1386
to fall upon ——a1398
to start on ——a1398
oppugn?1435
to lay to, untoa1500
onseta1522
wipe1523
to set against ——1542
to fall aboard——1593
aggress1596
to fall foul1602
attack1613
appugn1615
to set upon ——1639
to fall on ——1641
to lay home, hard, hardly to1650
tack1720
bombard1766
savage1796
to pitch into ——1823
to begin upon a personc1825
bulldog1842
to down on (also upon)a1848
to set at ——1849
to start on ——a1851
to start in on1859
set on at or to1862
to let into1872
to go for ——1890
swash1890
slog1891
to get at ——1893
tee1955
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
beswinge1568
paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
beswaddle1598
bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely
dressc1405
wipe1523
to take up1530
whip1530
to shake upa1556
trounce1607
castigatea1616
lasha1616
objurgate1616
thunderstrike1638
snub1672
drape1683
cut1737
rowa1798
score1812
to dress down1823
to pitch into ——1823
wig1829
to row (a person) up1838
to catch or get Jesse1839
slate1840
drop1853
to drop (down) to or on (to)1859
to give (a person) rats1862
to jump upon1868
to give (a person) fits1871
to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880
lambaste1886
ruck1899
bollock1901
bawl1903
scrub1911
burn1914
to hang, draw, and quarter1930
to tear a strip off1940
to tear (someone) off a strip1940
brass1943
rocket1948
bitch1952
tee1955
fan-
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxxxvi. h ij b/1 They wolde come to the walles, and wype them in derysion, sayeng [etc.].
?1562 Thersytes sig. D.iv Thom tombler of tewxbury turninge at a tryce Wyll wype wylliam waterman if he be not wyse.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3v You see my quarter staffe... A washing blow of this..can wipe a fellow ouer the thumbs.
1620 I. C. Two Merry Milke-maids iv. i. sig. M Cal. Someting crost my Nose. Ran. A Dore, a Dore, the fields are full of them... There was another wip't me in the same place.
a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnnv/1 Tra. You have wip't him now. Soph. So will he never the wench I hope.
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 30 That such a hainous fault..should be only wip't with an implicit and oblique touch.
1663 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 164 [He] found them out in bed togither, wher he abused his brother for such a lewd prancke, and did weipe hir with his rodde.
1846 Bentley's Misc. Oct. 366 If you don't shell out on the minute I'll wipe your throat with my bowy-knife.
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Wipe, to strike, to whip. Clydes.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > strike off with a blow
to smite offa1225
latch1535
wipe1596
to knock offa1616
slat1828
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off > with a sweeping stroke
to smite offa1225
off-swipc1275
to strike offc1485
wipe1596
slash1689
to sweep off1707
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xi. sig. X5v Her Lions clawes he from her feete away did wipe . View more context for this quotation
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 130 Nor that a Nonconformists head must be wip'd off as oft as your nose drivles.
8. intransitive for passive (literal or figurative: see 2, 6).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > be wiped [verb (intransitive)]
wipea1400
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8952 If þat ani vertu be Of halines wit-in þat tre, Wit sinful mens fett..On ganging it sal wipe a-wai.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 20 Al þe worchyp of þis word hit wyl wype sone away; Hit falls and fadys forþ.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. viii. 138 He had on his hands The blood of souls, that would not wipe away.
1926 N.E.D. at Wipe Mod. colloq. The spots will easily wipe off.
9. Cinematography and Television. To pass from or from one scene to another by means of a wipe; to employ a wipe.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > produce television broadcast [verb (intransitive)] > devices
wipe1951
jump cut1953
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > special effects [verb (intransitive)] > others
iris-in1934
iris-out1934
wipe1951
mix1952
1951 Halas & Privett How to cartoon for Amateur Films 118 We now wish to wipe from one scene to another.
1952 Cinema 7 Jan. 97/1 [The Director] can cut, fade, wipe or mix at will.
10. Phrases (with various nouns as object).† b. to wipe the mouth of: to exonerate, prove or assert the innocence of: cf. Proverbs xxx. 20.
a. to wipe a person's nose: †(a) see nose n. Phrases 1a, Phrases 1a(b) (cf. sense 5 above); occasionally, to treat with contempt or indignity; (b) in modern use = 1d (a).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase]
to pull a finchc1386
to wipe a person's nosea1475
to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523
to play fast and loose1557
to play false1576
to joint a person's nose of?1577
to make a cousin of1580
to sell smoke1589
munge1660
to sell (a person) a packet1886
to beat the count1897
to sell (a person) a pup1901
to hand (someone) a lemon1906
to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927
a1475 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Vitell.) 176 Thus they wold..Wypen our nose with our owne sleve.
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 10 The party must..seeke to wipe their noses by shaping them a shorte aunswere.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 323/2 Hee deuised a shifte howe to wype the Byshoppes nose of some of his Golde.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch i. i, in Terence in Eng. 115 The very destruction of our substance: who wipes our noses of all that we should have.
1599–1600 Minutes Archdeaconry of Colchester Jan. lf. 247 (MS.) Her husband..dyd saye that ‘I will wype the noses of you all’.
1842 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 37 i. 235 He once or twice, to borrow a not very delicate sporting phrase, ‘wiped my nose’ in a very off-hand manner.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xi. lviii. 330 ‘I could have wiped your nose,’ exclaimed Mr. Sponge, covering the hare with a hedge-stake placed to his shoulder like a gun.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > exculpate
cleansea1000
skere?c1225
unwreea1250
spurge1303
sunyiea1325
disblamec1374
quita1400
whitena1400
emplasterc1405
declare1460
clear1481
absolve1496
purgea1530
free1560
clenge1592
disculp1602
uncharge1604
exonerate1655
exculpate1656
wash1659
excriminate1661
to wipe the mouth of1687
disculpate1693
whitewash1703
rehabilitate1847
1687 W. Penn Good Advice to Church of Eng. 8 I know she flatters herself..she is a Bulwark against Popery; and with that,..wipes her Mouth of all old scores.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 95 This is alledged by the Romanists to wipe the mouth of the pope from being called the Antichrist.
c. to wipe one's hands of = to wash one's hands of at wash v. 3e. Similarly to wipe one's lips of.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > utterly or energetically
to throw off?a1439
bandy1591
to cast in the wind1652
to fling, give, throw, etc. to the winds1667
to wipe one's hands of1785
to wipe one's lips of1851
1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times III. 98 I was determined to wipe my hands of it.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xvi, in Writings I. 160 With a late and hesitating virtue, they wiped their lips of the murderer's malt, and consented to believe him very bad indeed.
1855 A. Trollope Warden x. 159 That he could..wipe his hands altogether of so sorrow-stirring a concern.
d. to wipe a person's eye (slang or colloquial): (a) Sporting, etc. (see quot. 1823); hence, to get the better of, ‘score off’; (b) to ‘give a black eye to’.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > win > defeat someone
to wipe a person's nose1577
to wipe a person's eye1823
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > injure by striking > bruise > give black eye
to wipe a person's eye1874
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) In shooting, if one miss the bird, and a companion, firing after, kill it, the lucky, or more skilful gunner, is said to wipe the eye of his disappointed friend.
1860 W. W. Reade Liberty Hall, Oxon. II. 207 If there is anything,..you shoot first, old boy, as it's your find: I'll stand by and wipe your eye.
1869 Athenæum 14 Aug. 214/1 The personal question between the Society and its agents, of what is due from the latter to the former when its eye is to be wiped in the fashion above told.
1874 R. H. Belcher Cramleigh Coll. I. 89 Hullo! Cheeky! it's Sunday, or else I'd wipe your eye for you.
1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 128 If you do perchance wipe the eye..of another shooter..apologize.
1899 Spectator 18 Mar. 385 Never so well-pleased as when he is wiping the eye of the professional burglar.
1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xiv. 168 ‘I'm glad somebody appreciates me. Anyhow,’ he added viciously, ‘I bet that's wiped old Pritchard's eye.’
1929 F. M. Ford Let. 11 Sept. (1965) 187 He had only got me away from Duckworth in order to wipe Gerald's eye.
1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. vi. 60 At teatime the village policeman reappeared.., having wiped the eye of all the grand detectives who had come from London in their shiny cars. He produced a perfect jumble-sale heap of objects which had been discarded by the burglars.
1956 ‘A. Gilbert’ And Death came Too xiv. 146 Eventually he agreed to take the case (his heel of Achilles being an inability to pass up a chance of wiping the official eye).
e. to wipe one's boots on: to inflict the utmost indignity upon. to wipe the floor with: to ‘bring to the ground’ utterly, inflict a crushing defeat upon; also to wipe up the floor or ground with.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] > humiliate to the utmost
to wipe one's boots on1887
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly
threshc1384
to knock the socks offa1529
thump1597
thrash1609
thwacka1616
capot1649
to beat to snuff1819
to knock into a cocked hat1830
to —— (the) hell out of1833
sledgehammer1834
rout1835
whop1836
skin1838
whip-saw1842
to knock (the) spots off1850
to make mincemeat of1853
to mop (up) the floor with1875
to beat pointless1877
to lick into fits1879
to take apart1880
to knock out1883
wax1884
contund1885
to give (a person) fits1885
to wipe the floor with1887
flatten1892
to knock (someone) for six1902
slaughter1903
slather1910
to hit for six1937
hammer1948
whomp1952
bulldozer1954
zilch1957
shred1966
tank1973
slam-dunk1975
beast1977
1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 4 Jan. 2/6 Two brothers wipe up the floor with a Missouri newspaper man.
1888 Detroit Free Press 22 July 11/4 The Scroggin boy was as tough as a dogwood knot... He'd wipe up the ground with him; he'd walk all over him.
1896 Dial. Notes 1 427 Wipe the floor with, to defeat.
1897 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 26 May 7/4 Green fairly wiped the floor with Roberts in the first two rounds.
1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 346 Though he often wiped his boots on a man, he never showed him the more stinging insolence of condescension.
1905 ‘G. Thorne’ Lost Cause ix His only grief was that he was not allowed to ‘wipe the floor with that there Hamlyn’.
1908 Magnet 1 i. 3/1 I've wiped up the ground with bigger fellows than you, for far less cheek than you've given me.
1918 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Island Myst. xxiv. 231 He was so infernally certain that the Emperor would wipe the floor with us.
Compounds
The verb-stem in combination.
wipe-clean adj. designating fabrics or furnishings that may be cleaned simply by wiping.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [adjective] > capable of being wiped
wipeable1926
wipe-clean1962
1962 N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Sept. 102 In new wipe-clean Boltaflex Vinyl Suede.
1965 Economist 13 Feb. 700/2 The [synthetic] shoes, although theoretically ‘wipe-clean’, tend to look grubby when unpolished.
1970 Vogue Jan. 25/1 Lovely cookers with plain glass tops—put the pan down..and you are on the hob, yet this is a wipe-clean glass surface.
1977 Austral. House & Garden Jan. 114 (advt.) Interiors are wipe clean, white melamine laminate, edged in white P.V.C.
1983 Which? Dec. (Publications Suppl.) Both binders are hardwearing and have wipe-clean covers.
Draft additions 1993
transitive. With out. Of drink, etc.: to render intoxicated or senseless. Also figurative, to overwhelm. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > have intoxicating effect on [verb (transitive)]
intoxicatea1566
besot1627
buzz1927
stone1959
to jack up1966
wipe1972
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk
fordrenchc1000
indrunkena1300
mazec1390
distemper1491
whittle1530
swill1548
inebriate1555
disguise1560
intoxicatea1566
tipple1566
overtake1577
betipple1581
seethe1599
fuddlec1600
fox1611
wound1613
cupa1616
fuzzle1621
to gild overa1625
sousea1625
tip1637
tosticate1650
drunkify1664
muddle1668
tipsy1673
sop1682
fuzz1685
confound1705
mellowa1761
prime1788
lush1821
soak1826
touch1833
rosin1877
befuddle1887
slew1888
lush1927
wipe1972
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or overwhelm > completely or overthrow
shrenchc897
allayOE
fellOE
quellOE
to bring to the groundc1175
forlesec1200
to lay downa1225
acastc1225
accumberc1275
cumber1303
confoundc1330
overthrowc1375
cumrayc1425
overquell?c1450
overwhelvec1450
to nip in (also by, on) the head (also neck, pate)?a1500
prostrate1531
quash1556
couch1577
unhorse1577
prosternate1593
overbeata1616
unchariot1715
floor1828
quench1841
to knock over1853
fling1889
to throw down1890
steamroller1912
wipe1972
zonk1973
1972 Last Whole Earth Catal. (Portola Inst.) 67/3 She might have been able to go another hour or two if she hadn't drunk the beer she'd swiped from the Lone Outdoorsman the night before. But she did, and it wiped her out completely.
1972 Jazz & Blues Sept. 8/1 When I heard Art it was a wipeout. He just wiped me out man.
1985 C. Yeager & L. Janos Yeager (1986) 10 Dad grew some tobacco for his smoking; I tried chewing some and it wiped me out.
Draft additions 1997
= swipe v. Additions 5. Also, to pass (a light pen) over a bar code.
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society > communication > information > [verb (transitive)] > read with electronic device
wipe1985
swipe1986
society > communication > information > [verb (transitive)] > read with electronic device > bar code reader
wipe1985
1985 Daily Tel. 22 June 19/5 The retailer will wipe the card through a card reader and enter the details of the transaction.
1987 Which? Dec. 565/1 When you hand over your card to pay, the shop assistant wipes it through the terminal.
1990 What Satellite July 23/1 Another simple solution..is a barcode reader—you wipe a light pen over a barcode and—bingo!—the recorder's programmed itself.
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