wipe out

Verb
  1. Use up (resources or materials) (synset 201159815)
    "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
    is a type of: drop, expend, spend - pay out
    subtypes:
    same as: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up
    verb group: occupy, take, use up - require (time or space)
  2. Kill in large numbers (synset 200471632)
    "the plague wiped out an entire population"
    is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
    same as: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish
    verb group: decimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
  3. Eliminate completely and without a trace (synset 201624256)
    "The old values have been wiped out"
    is a type of: destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
    same as: sweep away
  4. Remove from memory or existence (synset 200480322)
    "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
    is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
    same as: erase
  5. Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase (synset 200479761)
    "kill these lines in the President's speech"
    is a type of: take away, take out - take out or remove
    same as: kill, obliterate
  6. Wipe out the effect of something (synset 200472127)
    "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
    is a type of: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of - terminate, end, or take out
    same as: cancel out

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