Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wipe_out

2 senses of wipeout

Sense 1
destruction, demolition, wipeout -- (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)
       => ending, conclusion, finish -- (event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show")

Sense 2
wipeout -- (a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard))
       => spill, tumble, fall -- (a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb wipe_out

6 senses of wipe out

Sense 1
consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out -- (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")
       => spend, expend, drop -- (pay out; "spend money")

Sense 2
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off -- (kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population")
       => kill -- (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays")

Sense 3
wipe out, sweep away -- (eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out")
       => destroy, destruct -- (do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house")

Sense 4
erase, wipe out -- (remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915")
       => kill -- (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays")

Sense 5
kill, obliterate, wipe out -- (mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech")
       => take away, take out -- (take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables")

Sense 6
cancel out, wipe out -- (wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record")
       => extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with -- (terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts")