verb

definition

To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)

example

I wiped the sweat from my brow with the back of my hand.

definition

To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.

definition

To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.

definition

To erase.

example

I accidentally wiped my hard drive.

definition

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.

definition

To remove an expression from one's face.

example

You should wipe that smirk off your face before the boss comes in.

definition

To deperm (a ship).

verb

definition

To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.

example

If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.

noun

definition

The act by which something is wiped.

example

multiple wipings of a computer's hard disk

definition

Material wiped off something.

example

analysis of wipings taken from a suspect's hands

definition

A thrashing.

Examples of wiping in a Sentence

Are you wiping the sleep from your eyes?

Alex was wiping Ed down with a cloth.

Wiping the tears from her eyes, she stood.

He grabbed a rag and wet it before wiping her mouth.

She was wiping the table when he returned.

Her voice broke and she stopped, wiping her eyes.

He ducked under the water and came up, wiping the water from his eyes and pushing his hair back.

She moved away from him, wiping her face.

Wiping her hands on her pants, she gripped her rifle and tried to stay awake.

Grabbing a paper towel, she began wiping the eggs off and putting them in cartons people had given her.

After trying many experiments to obviate the irregularities arising from this cause, I find reason to prefer the simple one of carefully wiping the whole instrument, and especially the stem, with a clean cloth.

General Crawford Chamberlain states that this was Hodson's way of wiping out the debt.

Wiping her eyes, she pored through the rest of the paperwork, growing cold despite her wool coat in the middle of her warm apartment.

Wiping her tears, she concentrated on sketching.

Finally she took a deep breath and pulled away from him, wiping her eyes.

She was wiping the skillet with a paper towel when he entered the living room.

She met his accusing gaze with a cold stare and continued wiping the skillet.

She swallowed a sob, wiping her face with the rag.

He paused again, clearing his throat and wiping tears from his cheeks.

She glanced up from wiping the table as he peaked around the door, his eyes sparkling with humor again.

She shrugged, wiping off the counter with the dishrag.

She watched him curiously, wondering if he planned on wiping off her offending fingerprints.

It is often covered with a white powder easily removed by wiping.

He concentrated hard on wiping the blood from the wound she caused before binding it with a strip of linen from his tunic.

Maybe I'll start wiping my own backside or something.

We are led to see ourselves touching his clammy magician's hands, and almost to imagine wiping the hair from his fevered brow.

Last week iSoft's Chief Executive quit after the firm had to restate revenues for the past three years - wiping out its profits.

Natural catastrophes and the havoc of War cause widespread devastation, wiping out life and art in a matter of seconds.

My ratling gun was very lucky, wiping out a whole unit of dryads with one burst of ' counts as magical ' fire.

By accident I was wiping dust from a plant with a wet sponge containing fabric softener.

Her first professional engagement was a brief stint at The National Theater wiping the spittle from Leo McKern's mouth.

Also if you leave a wash to dry without wiping, you will often get unsightly tidemarks.

The Latin proverb has it that "Turdus malum sibi cacat"; but the sowing is really effected by the bird wiping its beak, to which the seeds adhere, against the bark of the tree on which it has alighted.

It is an age of conscious selection as between ideal systems. Instead of necessitating a wasteful and precarious elimination of inadequate customs by the actual destruction of those who practise them - this being the method of natural selection, which, like some Spanish Inquisition, abolishes the heresy by wiping out the heretics one and all - progress now becomes possible along the more direct and less Comte's own term " fetishism " was most unfortunately misleading (see Fetishism).

I want five hundred rubles, and taking out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband's waistcoat.

With an effort Sonya sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining.

Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs.

Your fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed, said an infantryman, wiping the mud off his face with his sleeve.

Rostov wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front the better.

The soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats.

Hussars, ladies, witches, clowns, and bears, after clearing their throats and wiping the hoarfrost from their faces in the vestibule, came into the ballroom where candles were hurriedly lighted.

Dear one! she kept repeating, wiping away her tears with her fingers.

The officer, Timokhin, with his red little nose, standing on the dam wiping himself with a towel, felt confused at seeing the prince, but made up his mind to address him nevertheless.

Bolkhovitinov was bespattered all over with mud and had smeared his face by wiping it with his sleeve.

The Doctor was forced to set the self-destruct mechanism in the shelter, wiping the Sea Devil colony out to avert a war.

Nevertheless it aids eradication of a species ' self-destructive tendencies, which might mean wiping out the civilization.

Her first professional engagement was a brief stint at The National Theater wiping the spittle from Leo McKern 's mouth.

Jesus uses the picture of wiping out a monetary debt that someone owes us.

She was still shaking with laughter and wiping away the tears as the parrot delivered its message.

Mom and dad will be wiping those little bottoms all day!

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