wipe off
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wipe off — ► wipe off subtract (an amount) from a value or debt. Main Entry: ↑wipe … English terms dictionary
wipe off — verb 1. remove by wiping (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑wipe away • Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
wipe off — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms wipe off : present tense I/you/we/they wipe off he/she/it wipes off present participle wiping off past tense wiped off past participle wiped off wipe something off something to reduce the value of something by … English dictionary
wipe off — phr verb Wipe off is used with these nouns as the object: ↑drop, ↑grease, ↑grime, ↑lipstick, ↑mascara … Collocations dictionary
wipe off the map — ► wipe off the map obliterate totally. Main Entry: ↑map … English terms dictionary
wipe off — verb a) To remove something by wiping. Wipe a picture off the board. b) To destroy completely, leaving no trace Wipe water off the windscreen … Wiktionary
wipe off — to kill The imagery is from erasing chalk from a blackboard. The phrase is used of death through the forces of nature or by virtue of man s inhumanity: What more useful bird can you find, as wipes off worms an grubs as they did? (A.… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
wipe off — see wipe away … English dictionary
wipe off — v. erase; wipe away … English contemporary dictionary
wipe off the map — wipe (somewhere) off the map to cause a place to stop existing. The flood of 1965 almost wiped the town off the map … New idioms dictionary
