I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mop/wipe your brow (= dry your brow with your hand or a cloth because you are hot or nervous )
shake/rub/wipe etc sth dry
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He wiped his hands dry with a handkerchief.
wipe sth clean (= use a cloth to clean a surface )
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He started to wipe the blackboard clean.
wipe the sweat from your brow/forehead
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He wiped the sweat from his brow and carried on digging.
wipe your feet (= wipe your shoes on a mat to remove dirt )
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Be sure to wipe your feet before coming into the house.
wipe your mouth
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He laid down his fork and wiped his mouth.
wipe your nose (= wipe liquid away from your nose )
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The boy wiped his nose on his sleeve.
wipe/clean your glasses
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Harry wiped his glasses with the corner of a handkerchief.
wiped out
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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And the pound reeled, wiping almost £10 billion off share values.
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At first she thought it was one of the old ones and she almost wiped it out.
virtually
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But last month it was virtually wiped out, winning only nine of the Seimas's 141 seats.
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Their pensions were virtually wiped out by galloping inflation.
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Already the stocks look like being virtually wiped out.
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Many species of bird were virtually wiped out in the early part of the century to supply the demand for decorative feathers.
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Some diseases were virtually wiped out.
■ NOUN
blood
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He just picked the head up from the floor and wiped the blood off a bit and looked at it.
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A number of other women on the block were likewise kind, wiping my blood with white hankies.
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Gilbert was dragged with him, and twisted to rise as Rohmer wiped streaks of blood from his face.
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You must wipe away the blood with the damp cloth, like this, and help him to drink a little water.
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She wiped away the blood and went on to strike out 17 consecutive batters.
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He wiped the blood from a gash on his forehead then waved the Walther P5 threateningly at the growing crowd of onlookers.
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And James was bending over him, wiping the blood tenderly from his face with the torn end of his sleeve.
brow
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He sat down and wiped his brow .
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He pulls on his hat, wipes his brow , spits out some quid.
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I wiped my brow , which had become a little sweaty, and took a last look up at the shadowless wall above.
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He took off his hard hat and wiped his brow , after checking for scaffolding.
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The slope of her back, the way she wipes her brow .
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Even if she'd dabbed Mummy's eyes and wiped her brow with a hanky soaked in cologne.
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To wipe his brow would be a sign of weakness, too though; he wouldn't do it!
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Maxim took off his silk scarf, wiped his brow and put the scarf in his pocket.
debt
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Because the goal of wiping out the unpayable debts of the world's poorest countries has not been achieved.
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It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely.
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It was great for cash flow because the developer got the money up front, wiping out the debts straight away.
face
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Then Charlie was smearing blood over his face and wiping it over the bass guitarist.
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There are tears on his face and I wipe them away.
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After countless sittings during the early part of 1906 Picasso, unsatisfied with the face , wiped it out completely.
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Plastering his face with grease and wiping away Hook's villainous eyebrows, he said what he had to say.
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On the darkened half-landing Frankie rubbed his face to wipe away the last of his tears.
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Joachim cleaned my face , wiping dirt from the bruises whilst I greedily gulped the thick red claret.
floor
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It was never his habit to try to wipe the floor with anyone.
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In silence she wiped the floor and retrieved the cup.
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Have your best conversationalists around to tea or dinner and Richard would wipe the floor with them.
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And had I not wiped the floor with the little squirt, conversationally speaking?
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She had thought he would wipe the floor with her if he ever learned of her deception.
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This is good because it prevents the enemy character wiping the floor with your Goblins.
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The magazine Jamming saw the band wipe the floor with all opposition in all categories outside the female sections.
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Yet Oakland were also supposed to wipe the floor with Los Angeles a year ago.
foot
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Just inside the vestibule there was coconut matting, and seeing this Mum looked about then began to wipe her feet .
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A doormat for that bullying old harridan to wipe her feet on.
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Lee wiped his feet on the mat.
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The young man followed him into the hall, carefully wiping his feet on the mat.
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Phil Vickery wiped his feet on a couple of opponents, and received a lecture from the referee.
forehead
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I pulled it off gently, so as not to wake him, moistened a handkerchief with cologne and wiped his forehead .
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When the man did not stop to spit or wipe his forehead , each row took him approximately two minutes.
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He pushed the pad aside, took a sip of orange juice, wiped his forehead , and went on typing.
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You wipe your forehead , and feel the moisture on the palm of your hand-you wipe your hand on your pants.
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Shelley wiped her forehead , and soothed her.
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He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief before placing it back on his neck.
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I leaned across his wife and wiped his forehead with my handkerchief.
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At one end of the lawn, the gardener wiped his forehead , turned the mower around and began a new row.
hand
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With the heel of her hand , she wiped a circular space to see her face.
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Jimmy brushed the blood off with his hand , and wiped it on to his tracksuit bottoms.
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He lifted his hands to wipe away the tears and saw dark brown slime.
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He freed a hand and wiped away the spit.
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He raised his hand to wipe away the trickle of sweat that ran over the soft stubble on his cheek.
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His big hand wiped the small beads of sweat that had accumulated on his brow.
handkerchief
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I pulled it off gently, so as not to wake him, moistened a handkerchief with cologne and wiped his forehead.
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Miss Sadie enjoyed the bath story so much, she brought out a lace handkerchief to wipe her eyes.
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With his pocket handkerchief the Major wiped the window pane.
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Frank had sat up and taken out his handkerchief and wiped his nose.
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He took out a handkerchief , and wiped his face.
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With a large pocket handkerchief he wiped the perspiration from his forehead; it was getting hot.
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It was a long time before he pulled out his handkerchief and wiped his face.
lip
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He chuckled to himself, put down the cup he'd been drinking the water from, wiped his lips .
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He took a long swig, put the glass down and wiped his mis-shaven upper lip contentedly.
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She wiped her lips on a vast white napkin and emptied her glass of wine.
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Deems wiped his lips on his cloth.
map
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In El Salvador they've just had an earthquake, and whole towns were wiped off the map .
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Augustine somehow resists every attempt to wipe it off the map .
memory
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Nothing was ever going to wipe out the memory of tonight.
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He was right, some things could never be wiped from the memory .
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I always wipe the detective's memory .
mind
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Every memory, every thought, every trace of her identity was wiped from her mind .
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And when he had done with her, she could wipe him from her mind , obliterate him.
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He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds .
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It has wiped Labour Members' minds clean.
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Every lingering shred of sleep, every languorous thought of Johnny, was wiped from her mind .
mouth
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His face lit up suddenly, he wiped his mouth and shook his feet free of the snow cocoon.
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He was wiping his mouth with a striped napkin.
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He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and walked back into the bedroom.
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He spat and shrugged his shoulder across his lips, wiping his mouth , then he continued his progress across the lawn.
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Anne's logic was, ` I refuse to spend half a year watching you guys wipe your mouths on your sleeves.
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She wiped her mouth with her hand, then drank and wiped her mouth again.
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He wiped lipstick off his mouth with a handkerchief, reminded himself to lose it.
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She wiped her mouth with her hand, then drank and wiped her mouth again.
nose
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He found a handkerchief and blew his nose , wiped away the shameful tears.
profit
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It would wipe out farm profits , undermine rural employment and cause environmental degradation in East Anglia, he says.
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The losses look likely more than to wipe out the projected profits on the ECR90 project.
smile
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Then a bomb blast devastated the theatre and wiped away her smile of anticipation.
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Then, surprisingly, some one else wiped the smile off his face.
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To have these hostages to fortune wipes the smile from many a woman's face.
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No use permitting the prophets of doom to wipe all the smiles away.
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They all had to wipe the smiles off their faces when she came striding through the door.
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He could not wipe the smile off his face.
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But on the road they're likely to wipe the smile from your face after just a few miles.
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She'd wipe the smile off that Count's face for him.
sweat
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Pepita wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her right hand.
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He wiped the sweat from his forehead, willing Graham to appear at the window.
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He remained doubled over for several seconds before slowly straightening up and wiping the sweat from his forehead.
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Crowds lining the banked track cheered as he wiped the sweat from his forehead with a red handkerchief.
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Cranston leaned suddenly against the wall, wiping away the sweat now coursing down his face.
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He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand.
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He wiped the sweat from his forehead.
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Corbett went over and examined the bodies, wiping the sweat from his eyes as he turned each of the corpses over.
tear
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She wiped away a tear that had crept unnoticed on to her cheek.
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His laughter now was ecstatic; he wiped away tears .
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Hesitantly, Victoria stood up, wiping the tears off her cheeks with the back of her hands.
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I wiped the tears away and shut down the Huey.
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Don't expect me to wipe your tears .
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When you fail, have a good cry and then wipe your tears away.
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He found a handkerchief and blew his nose, wiped away the shameful tears .
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Fans and players wiped tears from their eyes.
value
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Billions of pounds have been wiped off share values and removed from foreign exchange reserves this week.
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Millions would undoubtedly be wiped off our share value following such a bad piece of publicity.
■ VERB
try
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It was never his habit to try to wipe the floor with anyone.
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She slapped me when I tried to wipe it up, but I swear she winked at me.
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He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt, but it was no good.
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And in trying to wipe out these risks, we actually create new risks.
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Spilt drink stuck to my bare toes, and when I tried to wipe it off, it changed into blood.
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I try wiping my fingers on my coat, but it don't help much - I still feel all sticky.
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She did not try to wipe the blood away, perhaps she never felt it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Wipe up all that mess before you begin cooking.
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Wipe your face. There's chocolate all around your mouth.
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Wipe your feet before you come in.
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Wiping his oily hands on a piece of cloth, he reached into his pocket and handed me the bill.
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Ask the waitress to wipe off the table.
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If you spill any paint, wipe it up immediately.
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The waiter was wiping the tables.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All she had loved, wiped out in a second.
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But in other places, those who resisted were wiped out to the man.
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Dunne put his sleeve to the glass and wiped a half circle clean.
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Every memory, every thought, every trace of her identity was wiped from her mind.
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Finally, used lemon halves are perfect for wiping away smells from chopping boards.
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He was so fastidious that he invariably wiped his cutlery with eighteen linen napkins before every meal.
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On the other hand, to establish a religion that would wipe out all chance of internal troubles.
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To have these hostages to fortune wipes the smile from many a woman's face.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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antiseptic wipes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A gentle wipe with a damp cloth is the safest course of action.
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Clean glass cookware with the wipe of a sponge that is saturated with vinegar.
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For anyone worried about extra sensitive skin, there's also a fragrance free wipe .
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He ran into a fast-food joint and swiped some little handy wipes that made them smell all lemony.
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I eschewed thoughts of a shower and removed earth with a baby wipe .
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Mr Grange gets out his big map and wipes off the dust.
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Skin felt soft after use, but a touch dry after a few wipes.