WIPED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

wiped

verb

past tense of wipe

as in swept

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The Lakers made the playoffs in 2013 but were swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round, just weeks after Kobe Bryant suffered a season-ending Achilles tendon tear.

— Law Murray, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
In the small community of Waiohinu on the southern point of Hawaii's Big Island, a mudslide swept through and destroyed about a dozen homes.

— Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of swept

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The President’s name was removed from the facade that month, and scrubbed from the center’s letterhead, website, and other official branding.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2026
MiniMax denies the allegations in its defense, but the superhero videos have been quietly scrubbed from its YouTube account.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026

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In one part of the experiment, a person wearing a virtual reality headset watched a stranger’s face being brushed on the cheek while feeling that same stroke on their own cheek for 120 seconds.

— Nicole Karlis, Allure, 14 Aug. 2026
Brockman thanked Dresser for her contributions and for building the enterprise foundation, and also brushed off concerns surrounding the competitive threat of open-source models from China, the person said.

— Ashley Capoot,Kate Rooney, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026

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Legacy databases are notoriously fragmented, proprietary data is rarely cleaned or standardized, and cybersecurity protocols surrounding corporate intellectual property remain a massive liability.

— Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The coffin was covered with mud, and, before bringing it inside his house, Luwi cleaned it off with a bucket of water and a sponge.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cleaned

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Nagiewicz said they were likely washed back out to sea by the incoming tide.

— Ross DiMattei, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
That means my greasy microfiber cloths do get washed with my cotton drying towels, along with oven mitts, linen napkins, and the seat pads for my counter stools (my kids somehow manage to trash them every week).

— Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of washed

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Its forecast for revenue growth in the current quarter fell short of expectations, which executives pinned on a supply crunch in components getting vacuumed up in the AI boom.

— Stan Choe, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026
One man leaned his shoulder into the drill as another vacuumed up the dust of century-old concrete.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026

Definition of vacuumed

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