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Synonyms for wipe out

40 synonyms
1 antonym
2 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

obliterate kill cancel eliminate do in take

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Obliterate

obliterate, kill, cancel, eliminate, rub out, eradicate, extinguish, liquidate, raze, destroy, carry off, ruin, scratch out, blot out, exterminate, annihilate, abate, uproot, decimate, expunge, extirpate, efface

2. Eat

do in, take, use, use up, eat, eat up, consume, exhaust, expend, deplete

Other

erase, top, sweep away, cancel out

Noun

run-through, knock-off, destruction, demolition

Antonyms

All antonyms of wipe out →

Definitions

v. 1
To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
a tornado that nearly wiped out an entire town
v. 2
To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
nearly a year's worth of database records wiped out by disk failure coupled with lack of backups
n. 1
The act of colliding or crashing.
The skateboarder had a nasty wipeout as she came off the ramp.

Related words

Other spellings: wipe-out wipeout

Example sentences

kill He tried to kill himself because he lost her love.
cancel Circumstances forced us to cancel our appointment.
eliminate Algeria needs to eliminate its endemic corruption.
obliterate It's time to obliterate those walls of yours!
eat Generally speaking, Westerners don't eat fish raw.

By length

3 letters: use¹, top¹, eat¹
4 letters: take¹, kill¹, ruin², raze¹
5 letters: erase², abate²
6 letters: cancel², expend², uproot², efface²
7 letters: destroy², consume², exhaust², deplete², expunge²
8 letters: decimate³
9 letters: eliminate⁴, eradicate⁴, liquidate³, extirpate³
10 letters: demolition⁴, extinguish³, annihilate⁴, obliterate⁴
11 letters: destruction³, exterminate⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ruin² = 2 syllables).