| 单词 | wipe out |
| 释义 | wipe out (once / 1089 pages) v To wipe out is to completely deplete or use up. If you wipe out your grandmother's entire batch of brownies, it means that you eat every single last one of them. You might wipe out your life's savings gambling in Las Vegas, or — more positively — wipe out your credit card debt by paying a little each month for a year. In either case, you've erased or eliminated something. Sometimes wipe out is used to describe a truly terrible event, as when a disease wipes out a country's population of songbirds. WORD FAMILYwipe out: wiped out, wipes out, wiping out USAGE EXAMPLESOverall, Peterson estimates that Trump’s policy could trigger a trade war that would throw the United States into recession and wipe out 4 million jobs. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) The great Torino side in 1949 was wiped out in a plane crash - they received a lot of solidarity afterwards. BBC(Dec 01, 2016) Since 2010 half of the Democrats from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan have been wiped out. Wall Street Journal(Nov 30, 2016) 1v use up (resources or materials) Syn|Hypo|Hyper consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up occupy, take, use up require (time or space) run out exhaust the supply of draindeplete of resources indulge, luxuriateenjoy to excess burn, burn off, burn upuse up (energy) spendspend completely exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tiredeplete surfeitindulge (one's appetite) to satiety overspendspend more than available of (a budget) underspendspend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) drop, expend, spend pay out 2v eliminate completely and without a trace The old values have been wiped out Syn|Hyper sweep away destroy, destruct do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of 3v mark for deletion, rub off, or erase Syn|Hyper kill, obliterate take away, take out take out or remove 4v remove from memory or existence Syn|Hyper erase kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly 5v wipe out the effect of something Syn|Hyper cancel out do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of terminate, end, or take out 6v kill in large numbers the plague wiped out an entire population Syn|Hyper annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish decimate kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly |
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