blipping

verb

present participle of blip
as in bleeping

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blipping
  1. removing
  2. clipping
  3. obliterating
  4. erasing
  5. eradicating
  6. wiping out
  7. expunging
  8. effacing
Verb
  • Water filtration is an easy option for backpackers but is less effective at removing viruses.
    — Elaine Reno, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The real frontier is removing the human latency between seeing a problem and solving it, and that’s exactly what agentic AI can help make possible.
    — Devendra Rajput, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of removing
Verb
  • Stembel suggests tightly folding or clipping the seed packet closed, and writing the year on it as a quick hack.
    — Bianca Lambert, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Rebroadcasting, clipping or other uses are not permitted without licensing.
    — Brian Smith, Des Moines Register, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of clipping
Verb
  • More than 1,000 people are dead and nearly 4,000 missing after a Himalayan glacial collapse unleashed catastrophic floods across the Nepal-China border, obliterating roads, towns and hydropower projects.
    — Shristi Kafle, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion people experienced partly or fully dark skies as the moon passes directly in front of our star, obliterating its light.
    — Claire Cameron & Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of obliterating
Verb
  • When the option of erasing heartbreak is so readily available, is this a kindness or a cruel, emotional violation?
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • But Bama followed with a 38-3 quarterfinal flop to Indiana, erasing any momentum and placing DeBoer squarely under the microscope entering a pivotal third season.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of erasing
Verb
  • The quest for 500 million flies The only way the US has succeeded in eradicating screwworm is by breeding millions of flies, sterilizing them using radiation and dropping them in areas with infestations.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The brand also claims that this sweeps away plaque rather than just blasting a hole through it, more effectively eradicating the sludgy bacteria.
    — Jenny Bailly, Allure, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of eradicating
Verb
  • Shares slumped 16% for a third straight session of losses, wiping out $400 billion in market cap on Monday alone.
    — Gail Krishnan, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • The prospect of even a mini-Dust Bowl is alarming as the original disaster during the Great Depression sent dust clouds across rural America, wiping out entire communities and triggering mass migration to other parts of the country.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 June 2026
Definition of wiping out
Verb
  • The miniseries is only three hours long, so Wallace had to heavily truncate King’s gargantuan tome, curtailing and expunging scenes and entire characters, as well as toning things down to fit broadcast rules.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Still, very much despite herself, Cusk has not succeeded in expunging character from her work.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of expunging
Verb
  • Their struggle has upturned the tabletop candle that illuminates the scene and any moment will surely extinguish it, effacing the giddy pattern formed by the writhing bodies and glowing, veiny bladder skin.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The leaps in time have the eerie effect of effacing time—the layered succession of images implying their simultaneity in Lidia’s mind.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2026
Definition of effacing
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