as in eradicates
to destroy all traces of
he didn't get his gambling under control until he had already wiped out his entire life savings
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Recent Examples of wipes out
Continue reading … LINES REDRAWN — Supreme Court greenlights Alabama GOP map that wipes out a majority-Black district.
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FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.
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Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
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Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
And the Netgear Orbi 770 Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, now $200 cheaper, wipes out dead zones across 8,000 square feet with blazing speeds and easy setup.
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PC Magazine,
12 Aug. 2025
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans.
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Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
That timeline could shrink if a massive fraud wipes out public confidence in the Internet.
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Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
And the Netgear Orbi 770 Wi-Fi 7 mesh system, now $200 cheaper, wipes out dead zones across 8,000 square feet with blazing speeds and easy setup.
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PC Magazine,
12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wipes out
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Treating the underlying condition eradicates the need for drug treatments that act globally.
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This method completely eradicates weeds on contact without any toxic chemicals.
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The whole thing with Pullman porters is they weren’t called by their names, they were all called George, so that erases your identity.
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Custom silicon is a continuous program, not a single release that erases a hardware shortage overnight.
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.
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An agent that cannot reliably query real-time pricing and inventory, or that cannot preserve brand logic through a checkout flow, destroys the value that luxury merchants have spent decades building.
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April freeze destroys crops Early on the morning of April 21, temperatures in Maryland dropped into the low 20s after weeks of unseasonably warm weather.
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Extragalactic astronomers refer to a region behind our Milky Way as the 'Zone of Avoidance' because dust between our galaxy's stars blots out, or deeply reddens, light from more distant galaxies behind it.
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Most people never get to experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the disk of the sun and reveals its fiery outermost atmospheric layer, or corona.
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“Wipes out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wipes%20out. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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