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Noun wipe out has 2 senses
  1. destruction, demolition, wipeout - an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
    --1 is a kind of ending, conclusion, finish
    --1 has particulars:
     annihilation, disintegration; eradication, obliteration; ravage, depredation; razing, wrecking; ruin, ruination; wrack, rack
    Derived forms: verb wipe out2, verb wipe out5, verb wipe out4, verb wipe out6, verb wipe out3
  2. wipeout - a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)
    --2 is a kind of spill, tumble, fall
,Verb wipe out has 6 senses
  1. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out - use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
    --1 is one way to spend, expend, drop
    Sample sentence:
    They wipe out more bread
  2. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
    --2 is one way to kill
    Derived form: noun wipeout1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  3. wipe out, sweep away - eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out"
    --3 is one way to destroy, destruct
    Derived form: noun wipeout1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  4. erase, wipe out - remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
    --4 is one way to kill
    Derived form: noun wipeout1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  5. kill, obliterate, wipe out - mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
    --5 is one way to take away, take out
    Derived form: noun wipeout1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  6. cancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
    --6 is one way to eliminate, get rid of, do away with
    Derived form: noun wipeout1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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