wipe

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

• Tom is wiping the table.

  Tom putzt den Tisch ab.

  Tatoeba · Amastan · CC BY 2.0 FR

• They wiped out the enemy.

  Sie löschten den Feind aus.

  Tatoeba · _undertoad · CC BY 2.0 FR

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To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion

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

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To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination

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To erase

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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 rubbingselten

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To remove an expression from one's faceselten

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To deperm (a ship)selten

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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 otherselten

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To hit or strikeselten