wipe sth out
— phrasal verb with wipe uk/waɪp/us/waɪp/verb [ T ]
C2 to destroy something completely:
Whole villages were wiped out in the fighting.
One bad harvest could wipe out all of a grower's profits for the previous two years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- sacrifice
- sink
- smash
- stave
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- wipe
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