wipe
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /waɪp/
wipe (wipes, present participle wiping; past and past participle wiped)
- (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
- Melissa wiped her glasses with her shirt.
- I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.
- Tom started to wipe his eyes.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds. The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely […]
- (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.
- (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
(More's Utopia) - If they by coveyne [covin] or gile be wiped beside their goods.
- (transitive, computing) To erase.
- I accidentally wiped my hard drive.
- (transitive, 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.
- (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
- 2008, Adele, First Love
- Please wipe that look out of your eyes, it's bribing me to doubt myself.
- You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in.
- 2008, Adele, First Love
- (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
- French: essuyer
- German: wischen
- Italian: asciugare, pulire
- Portuguese: esfregar, enxugar, limpar
- Russian: вытира́ть
- Spanish: limpiar, enjugar
wipe (plural wipes)
- The act of wiping something.
- multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
- A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
- A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
- French: lingette
wipe (plural wipes)
- A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
wipe (wipes, present participle wiping; past and past participle wiped)
- (intransitive, RPG, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
- If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.
wipe (plural wipes)
- (RPG, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
- Synonyms: TPK
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