wipe out
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(verb) eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out" |
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Synonyms: sweep away |
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Related Words: destroy |
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(verb) wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise" |
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Synonyms: cancel out |
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Related Words: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
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(verb) remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" |
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Synonyms: erase |
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Related Words: kill |
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(verb) mark for deletion or rule out; "kill these lines in the President's speech" |
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Synonyms: kill, obliterate |
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Related Words: take away, take out |
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(verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" |
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Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish |
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Related Words: kill |
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(verb) use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
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Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up |
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Related Words: burn, burn off, burn up, drain, drop, expend, indulge, luxuriate, run out, sap, spend |
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