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slang being under the influence of a recreational drug most of the club patrons were too wiped out to know or care what was happening

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wiped out

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verb

past tense of wipe out

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Recent Examples of wiped out
Adjective
Known locally as a sihek, the Guam kingfisher was wiped out in its native habitat by the invasive brown tree snake. Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 29 July 2026 This strategic move, despite absorbing a 64% tariff hike that wiped out a year's profit, enabled them to meet retailer price points, significantly expanding their US footprint and indirectly creating more domestic jobs. Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Verb
That wiped out about $265 billion of its market value, which remains above $4 trillion. Steve Kopack, NBC news, 25 June 2026 Over about 60,000 years, 96 percent of Earth’s marine species and about three of every four land species were wiped out. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for wiped out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiped out
Adjective
  • One way to discourage the habit would be to keep yourself from becoming overly tired.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 30 July 2026
  • Many of those creators can no longer command the same fees from brands, and more often than not their followers are tired of the same old content.
    Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 30 July 2026
Adjective
  • Morrison said this technology does offer the promise of never driving distracted or drunk like human drivers do, but robotaxis have had some problems.
    Josh Funk, Fortune, 31 July 2026
  • As all of this finale drama is happening around him, Danny gets increasingly drunker, foreshadowing absolutely nothing good coming our way.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 30 July 2026
Adjective
  • The report notes the area is known by detectives to be a high crime area with multiple stray dogs and wandering drug users.
    Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The 2026 World Cup can be a catalyst to boost it to an even higher orbit.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Which fruits and vegetables eradicated polio in the United States?
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
  • TheWorld Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated only three years later.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
Adjective
  • Phoenix Henrichsen, who made his first court appearance with scraggly long hair and looking exhausted, appeared Monday neatly groomed, with his hair pulled back in a bun.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • As hundreds of exhausted migrants head back to Morocco and others vow to stay, residents describe a city upended by clashes, military deployments and a deeply unsettled border.
    Sergio Rodrigo Ruíz, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • His tenure came to an end when video surfaced of a drunken Galliano berating other customers at a Paris bar with vile antisemitic insults.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2026
  • On the side of the highway, the night is a cacophony of blaring horns and the shouts of drunken men.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Adjective
  • Those events combined loaded walking with team activities and physical tasks.
    Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Officers next detained the four, and police said at that point one of the officers found a loaded handgun in the waistband of one of them.
    Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • In the third inning, the Rockies erased Salvador Perez’s leadoff single as Massey grounded into a double play.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The boundary between indoor and outdoor living is nearly erased as floor-to-ceiling glass windows and walls are flung open to redefine the term cross-breeze.
    Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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“Wiped out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiped%20out. Accessed 6 Aug. 2026.

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