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Definition of Wipe
Wipe

The lapwing.

To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.

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

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

Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.

A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.

A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.

A handkerchief.

Stain; brand.

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Wipe Quotations

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
Ernest Hemingway

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.
Dennis Kucinich

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man

Wipe Translations

wipe in Dutch is afvegen, wissen, afdrogen, afwissen
wipe in French is essuyez, essuyent, essuyons, essuyer
wipe in German is abstreifen, wischen, abstreifen
wipe in Swedish is torka

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