wipe
/waɪp/
To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface; To smear with this kind of motion; To remove by rubbing; to rub off
- he/she/it
- wipes
- past participle
- wiped
Meanings
- 1
To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface — Compare rub.
Tom is wiping the table.
Tatoeba · Amastan · CC BY 2.0 FR
They wiped out the enemy.
Tatoeba · _undertoad · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion
- 3
To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out
- 4
To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination
- 5
To erase
- 6
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 rubbingrare
- 7
To remove an expression from one's facerare
- 8
To deperm (a ship)rare
- 9
To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the otherrare
- 10
To hit or strikerare