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wipe out to have a very serious accident. Jim wiped out on the ice and broke his leg. He was driving crazily and wiped out on a curve. Usage notes: usually someone wipes out because they are going too fast See also: wipe wipe out (someone/something) 1. to destroy someone or something. We were ordered to wipe out a small enemy force hiding in the village. The floods wiped whole villages out. 2. to cause someone to lose or spend all their money. My neighbor was totally wiped out by the last recession. A night out with Paul and Michelle just about wiped us out. See also: wipe |
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At fifty-five he began life again, determined with his pen to wipe out the debt. Then he drove away twelve heifers and a hundred cows never yoked, and the bull who mounted the cows, fastening to the tail of each one brushwood to wipe out the footmarks of the cows. And he did not stop there; for in order to wipe out the memory of what they had undergone, he commanded that the tailor, the doctor, the purveyor and the merchant, should each be clothed in his presence with a robe from his own wardrobe before they returned home. |
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