wipe out

verb

1. use up (resources or materials); “this car consumes a lot of gas”; “We exhausted our savings”; “They run through 20 bottles of wine a week”

   Synonyms

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

   Less specific

   • spend, expend, drop

   More specific

   • run out, drain, indulge, luxuriate, burn off, burn, burn up, spend, run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire

2. kill in large numbers; “the plague wiped out an entire population”

   Synonyms

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

   Less specific

   • kill

3. eliminate completely and without a trace; “The old values have been wiped out”

   Synonyms

   • sweep away

   Less specific

   • destroy, destruct

4. remove from memory or existence; “The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915”

   Synonyms

   • erase

   Less specific

   • kill

5. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; “kill these lines in the President’s speech”

   Synonyms

   • kill, obliterate

   Less specific

   • take away, take out

6. wipe out the effect of something; “The new tax effectively cancels out my raise”; “The `A’ will cancel out the `C’ on your record”

   Synonyms

   • cancel out

   Less specific

   • extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with