WIPE OUT


Meaning of WIPE OUT in English

wipe out phrasal verb ( see also ↑ wipe )

1 . wipe something ↔ out to destroy, remove, or get rid of something completely:

Whole villages were wiped out by the floods.

Nothing could wipe out his bitter memories of the past.

2 . wipe somebody ↔ out informal to make you feel extremely tired:

The heat had wiped us out.

⇨ ↑ wiped out

3 . American English to fall or hit another object when driving a car, riding a bicycle etc

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.