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wipe off

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wipe someone or something off
to clean something off someone or something by wiping. She wiped the baby off and put clean clothes on him. Please wipe off your shoes. John fell in the mud and Sam wiped him off.
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wipe something off 

1. to remove something (from something else) by wiping or rubbing. There is mud on your shirt. Please wipe it off. I must wipe off the ketchup from my shirt.
2. to tidy or clean something by wiping (something else) off. Please wipe the table off. There's water on it. Wipe off your shirt. There's ketchup on it.
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wipe something off (one's face)

1. . Lit. to remove something, such as food or dirt, from one's own face. Wipe that peanut butter off your face!
2. Fig. to remove a smile, grin, silly look, etc., from one's face. Wipe that silly grin off your face, private! Wipe that smile off!
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Let me wipe off that strawberry jam over your mouth.
Anyway, I shall first slap him; the initiative will be mine; and by the laws of honour that is everything: he will be branded and cannot wipe off the slap by any blows, by nothing but a duel.
Carefully she rubbed and ironed every fold and every hem, with the most scrupulous exactness, every now and then raising her hand to her face to wipe off the tears that were coursing down her cheeks.
 
 
 
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