as in to eradicate
to destroy all traces of
he didn't get his gambling under control until he had already wiped out his entire life savings
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Recent Examples of wipe out
Trump's government-wide hiring freeze threatened to wipe out hundreds of studies and clinical trials that are run through temporary VA appointments – scientific partnerships that have seeded landmark medical inventions like the pacemaker and the CAT scan.
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
In Tylertown, tall trees were ripped in half and entire neighborhoods were wiped out.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025
Closed, because the Eaton fire wiped out more than 6,000 homes in Altadena.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
The chance for a rare four-peat was wiped out by a 49-45 homecourt loss to Mullen in last year’s Sweet 16.
—Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
In Tylertown, tall trees were ripped in half and entire neighborhoods were wiped out.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025
Closed, because the Eaton fire wiped out more than 6,000 homes in Altadena.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
The chance for a rare four-peat was wiped out by a 49-45 homecourt loss to Mullen in last year’s Sweet 16.
—Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wipe out
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States reporting measles cases Measles was declared eradicated in the USA in 2000, but recent sporadic outbreaks have been linked to international travelers and numerous unvaccinated people, based on CDC reports.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2025
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This should be child’s play for sophisticated on-device AI to eradicate once and for all.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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Its streets were power washed, graffiti was erased, trash was cleared, and the city’s sizable homeless population was relocated.—
Carson Becker,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
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The service comes at a price, according to a release: The relived memories are permanently erased after viewing.—
Nicole Fell,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Mar. 2025
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Even before abolishing the department, the Trump administration blocked student loan forgiveness and repayment plans, slashed department staffing, and wiped the federal watchdog agency tasked with overseeing student loan servicing and collections.—
Sareen Habeshian,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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What is Trump's justification for abolishing the department?—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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Af Klint edited her own notebooks later in life, rewriting or destroying entire passages and exorcising biographical details.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea Thursday as fire crews struggled to contain the country's worst-ever wildfires, which have killed 28 people, forced at least 37,800 to flee their homes and destroyed thousands of structures and vehicles.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Wipe out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wipe%20out. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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