wipe out - Meaning in Tamil

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wipe out - Meaning in Tamil

Definitions and Meaning of wipe out in English

wipe out verb

1. kill in large numbers

   Synonyms

   annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish

   Example

   • "the plague wiped out an entire population"
2. wipe out the effect of something

   Synonyms

   cancel out

   Examples

   • "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"
   • "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
3. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

   Synonyms

   kill, obliterate

   Example

   • "kill these lines in the President's speech"
4. remove from memory or existence

   Synonyms

   erase, erase

   Example

   • "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
5. use up (resources or materials)

   Synonyms

   consume, deplete, eat up, eat, exhaust, run through, use up

   Examples

   • "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
   • "this car consumes a lot of gas"
   • "We exhausted our savings"
6. eliminate completely and without a trace

   Synonyms

   sweep away

   Example

   • "The old values have been wiped out"

Synonyms of wipe out

• annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish
• cancel out
• kill, obliterate
• erase
• consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up
• sweep away

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