wipe off

phrasal verb

wiped off; wiping off; wipes off

1

: to clean (someone or something) by using a towel, one's hand, etc.

I wiped off the baby and took him out of the high chair.

She wiped the counters off.

2

: to remove (something) by rubbing

I wiped the food off the baby's face.

She wiped off the oil from the counter.

—often used figuratively in British English

More than a billion pounds have been wiped off share prices.

Examples of wipe off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This means that, if global oil prices fall below $50, large part of the U.S. oil production will be wiped off the market, and prices will quickly rebound. —Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025

More than $9 trillion in value has been wiped off global markets in the last three days. —Zac Anderson, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025

Those moves were not of anywhere near the magnitude of late last week, when The Wall Street Journal estimated that $6.6 trillion was wiped off the value of U.S. stocks in just two days. —Niall Stanage, The Hill, 7 Apr. 2025

Billions of dollars were wiped off Russia's stock market after President Donald Trump's announcement of global tariffs—a signal that the country will be hit hard by the measures despite having been left off the list of countries targeted. —Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for wipe off

• cerenkov
• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff