vverb.consumptionuse up (resources or materials)Synset:consume deplete eat eat up exhaust run through use up
Examples:- this car consumes a lot of gas
- We exhausted our savings
- They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Derivationally Related Form:exhaustionconsumptiveconsumabledepletion
Hypernyms:drop expend spend
Inherited Hypernyms:consumespendpaygivetransfer
Direct Hyponyms:burnburn offburn updrainexhaustindulgeluxuriateplay outrun downrun outsapspendtire
Full Troponyms:burn offdrainindulgeoverspendrun downrun outspendsurfeitunderspend
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something | Somebody ---s PP (apply to: eat) | They --- him of all his money (apply to: deplete) | They --- more bread (apply to: wipe out, run through, eat, eat up)
vverb.changekill in large numbersSynset:annihilate carry off decimate eliminate eradicate extinguish
Examples:- the plague wiped out an entire population
Derivationally Related Form:annihilatorwipeoutextinctionannihilationdecimationannihilative
Hypernyms:kill
Inherited Hypernyms:eliminatekill
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | They want to --- the prisoners (apply to: eliminate)
vverb.creationeliminate completely and without a traceSynset:sweep away
Examples:- The old values have been wiped out
Derivationally Related Form:wipeout
Hypernyms:destroy destruct
Inherited Hypernyms:wipe outdestroyunmake
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | Something ---s something
vverb.changeremove from memory or existenceSynset:erase
Examples:- The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915
Derivationally Related Form:wipeouterasure
Hypernyms:kill
Inherited Hypernyms:erasekill
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | Something ---s something
vverb.changemark for deletion, rub off, or eraseSynset:kill obliterate
Examples:- kill these lines in the President's speech
Derivationally Related Form:wipeoutobliterationobliterable
Hypernyms:take away take out
Inherited Hypernyms:killtake awayremove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.changewipe out the effect of somethingSynset:cancel out
Examples:- The new tax effectively cancels out my raise
- The 'A' will cancel out the 'C' on your record
Derivationally Related Form:wipeout
Hypernyms:do away with eliminate extinguish get rid of
Inherited Hypernyms:cancel outextinguishdestroyunmake
Sentence Frame:Something ---s something