wipe out


wipe out (http://definr.com/wipe out)

     v 1: 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" [syn: consume, {eat
          up}, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through]
     2: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire
        population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish,
         eradicate, decimate, carry off]
     3: eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values
        have been wiped out" [syn: sweep away]
     4: remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the
        Armenians in 1915" [syn: erase]
     5: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase, as of writings; "kill
        these lines in the President's speech" [syn: kill, obliterate]
     6: wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively
        cancels out my raise" [syn: cancel out]
     7: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the
        memory of the time in the camps" [syn: obliterate, efface]