wiped out

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adjective

Synonyms of wiped outnext
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: extremely tired : exhausted entry 1

wiped out

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past tense and past participle of wipe out

Examples of wiped out in a Sentence

Adjective I am completely wiped out. felt wiped out for several weeks after getting the flu
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Adjective
His family has been wiped out in the Plague, along with half of England. Michael Phillips, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026 Corals – which have been severely bleached along the entire Tanzanian coastline, and largely wiped out around Zanzibar – are being replanted, to try to grow new populations. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026 In response, civil rights leaders organized a national Target boycott, which resulted in a 33% fall in the corporation’s stock price and wiped out more than $20 billion in market value. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026 Israeli military strikes in the first weeks of the war wiped out much of the theocratic government’s leadership structure, including its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wiped out

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1965, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of wiped out was in 1965

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“Wiped out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wiped%20out. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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