wipe

[Wipe]

Rub with a circular motion

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The lapwing.

Noun
the act of rubbing or wiping; "he gave the hood a quick rub"

Verb
rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"

n.
The lapwing.

v. t.
To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.

v. t.
To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.

v. t.
To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.

n.
Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.

n.
A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.

n.
A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.

n.
A handkerchief.

n.
Stain; brand.

Wipe

Wipe , n. [Cf. Sw. vipa, Dan. vibe, the lapwing.] (Zo'94l.) The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]

Wipe

Wipe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wiped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiping.] [OE. vipen, AS. w'c6pian; cf. LG. wiep a wisp of straw, Sw. vepa to wrap up, to cuddle one's self up, vepa a blanket; perhaps akin to E. whip.] 1. To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.

Let me wipe thy face.

I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

2. To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively. "To wipe out our ingratitude." Shak.

Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.

3. To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out. [Obs.] Spenser.

If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.

To wipe a joint (Plumbing), to make a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe, by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing. -- To wipe the nose of, to cheat. [Old Slang]

Wipe

Wipe, n. 1. Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean. 2. A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe. [Low] 3. A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm. Swift. 4. A handkerchief. [Thieves' Cant or Slang] 5. Stain; brand. [Obs.] "Slavish wipe." Shak.

The lapwing.

To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.

Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.

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Usage Examples

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.